When Precision Sounds Like Rhetoric (Until Reality Catches Up)
What would Bill Copacino say, and what will Gartner FINALLY do?
What do Web 2.0, Web 4.0, Procurement 1.0, and Procurement 3.0 have in common?
On Friday’s segment “Beyond Business Intelligence Technology: The Importance of Domain Expertise” I will be welcoming Oco’s CEO William (Bill) Copacino who has authored 3 books and more than 150 articles on supply chain management, to discuss the transformational changes that are redefining our understanding of Business Intelligence. The level of preparation that goes into […]
“The social network community is on the verge of a monumental shift in which many of the networks that are in existence today will not be around tomorrow. By evolving beyond their technological origins, the core survivors will avoid the fate of the early lights, who like SixDegrees.com are destined to fade into historic insignifigance […]
Network Member Question Can you be transparent in Social Media? (Note: Please check out my thoughts on this question at http://echoinggreenbusiness.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2301358%3AblogPost%3A64) Carmen Bracamonte President – LargerNet Trade Development and Management Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL My Response I just wrote an article titled “The Web 2.0 Association: A Dynamic Engagement Between Stakeholders […]
Response to our recent sponsor profile articles is quite active with the posting on services procurement garnering more than 20 comments. As is our normal practice, I am more than pleased to share these comments with you starting with the feedback that was received from a supply chain professional in Panama regarding the August 20th post […]
Traditional membership models for many associations have become somewhat stagnate in that they are not effectively aligned with the emerging Web 2.0 world of dynamic engagement between stakeholders sharing the same interests and goals. According to CPPC-CCMP President Kathleen Muretti, recognizing and responding to this changing landscape is a key tenet of her council’s value […]
As an international speaker and recognized authority on supply chain management, it never ceases to surprise me that very few supply chain professionals know about Social Networking. Although there is a periphery understanding through mainstream brands such as Facebook, only 10% of my audiences are familiar with the term Social Network. An even smaller percent […]
Some professions, such as software developers, regularly utilize the similarity heuristic. For software developers, the similarity heuristic is utilized when performing debugging tasks. A software bug exhibits a set of symptoms indicating the existence of a problem. In general, similar symptoms are caused by similar types of programming errors. By comparing these symptoms with those […]
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When Precision Sounds Like Rhetoric (Until Reality Catches Up)