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Purchasing/Supply Chain Professionals Finally Cluing in to Twitter?!

July 15, 2009

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In his July 15th Spend Matters post titled “Ten Reasons Why I’m Finally Sold on Twitter (and Tips for Making it Work for You),” Jason Busch indicated that he is “back on Twitter with a vengeance.”   In fact he even used the word “addict” to describe his renewed level of Twitter activity. While recent articles […]

Making local government more workable through shared services

May 14, 2009

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In this era of “permanent fiscal crisis,” local governments have no choice but to seek out new and better ways of providing the services citizen’s demand within the constraint of available resources. (1) This may explain why nearly twice as many (58 percent to 31 percent) local governments in 2002 as in 1992 contemplated alternative […]

Are there 80,000 reasons that Alcock borrowed a page from Gershon?

May 11, 2009

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“In what has been described as the most significant restructuring of public services for a generation, the rest of the $21 billion (in savings) will have to come from overall efficiency gains such as improving the procurement system, and streamlining areas such as information technology and human resources.  That’s why the skeptics are skeptical.” In […]