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Hansen Consulting and Seminars New Credit Certificate Program

May 5, 2008

Whenever you purchase a Hansen Consulting and Seminars Inc white paper or service, you will receive a $25 HCSI credit certificate towards your next purchase. Accumulating knowledge through sharing knowledge! Whenever someone you have referred purchases a Hansen Consulting and Seminars Inc white paper or service, you will receive an HCSI $25 credit certificate towards your next purchase. […]

Do you practice “Business @ The Speed of Thought?” Does your enterprise have a “Digital Nervous System?” If not, why?

April 5, 2008

What does "Business @ The Speed of Thought" really mean?

Is There a Poor “Herbie” Anywhere in the Oracle SCM Area?

April 1, 2008

Member Question From the “Theory of Constraints” there is poor Herbie, the infamous bottleneck in the supply chain pipeline. For any of you who use the Oracle Supply Chain 11.5.9 (or above) platform, is there any built-in “Herbie” that you’ve noticed, or has it been custom code wrapped around vanilla, that effected you most? New […]

Why Six Sigma Initiatives Fail (A PI Q and A)

March 24, 2008

Member Question: What’s the #1 reason Six Sigma initiatives fail? (Maybe Six Sigma needs to be applied to Six Sigma . . . ?) My Response: At a Value Network Summit in 2007 Glenda Turner (a Supply Chain Integrator with Boeing) made the following statement; “Now that I know the value networks methodology, I would […]

Network Member Questions and Answers to Emerging Issues

February 7, 2008

Over the past few days the following questions by Network Members were asked and answered. To access the answers in their entirety visit the CATA Supply (Chain) Practices Hub. If you are not already a member, send an e-mail to procureinsights@rogers.com, with “HUB” in the subject line. NOTE: There are no fees associated with joining the […]

SAP Procurement for Public Sector (White Paper)

January 18, 2008

Who Can Benefit from this Paper? This white paper is an essential resource tool for public sector organizations that are already a client of SAP or, are in the process of investigating SAP as a possible platform for their procurement practice. Utilizing an advanced research methodology, the primary objective of this paper is to provide decision-makers with […]

The Mendocino Project: A Brilliant Strategy by Microsoft and SAP to Sidestep Anti-Trust Legislation?

December 21, 2007

Earlier this month I wrote a commentary regarding Microsoft’s purported plans to acquire SAP (December 5th, 2007). While the main focus of my thinking was on the direct (or indirect) impact such an action would have at the client “operational” level, one response viewed the situation through the lens of anti-trust legislation. Specifically, that “anti-trust […]