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Levelling the intagible playing field of professional services procurement (Beyond Referrals Profile)
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| “I stated that the worst thing a purchasing person can do when using an RFP to buy professional services is to exclude a project budget. Immediately, a rebuttal was offered, “But if I give them the budget,” stated the attendee, “they are all just going to come in at that budget.” He was right. But he failed to recognize that as a distinct advantage for both the vendor and the purchaser. When everyone’s price is the same, the buyer can compare expertise and value across a consistent price spectrum and purchase the services of the best expert they can afford.”
From the PowerPoint “A Decent Proposal”, Cal Harrison, Beyond Referrals (August 2008)
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Member Question Regarding Ariba Experience
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Does anyone have any experience with a company called Ariba and their ability to do spend analysis for a procurement group?
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Patrick
Program Manager
United States |
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Financial Supply Chains: Member Question & Survey
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What does the term "financial supply-chain" mean to you?
Enrico Camerinelli, Finance Director Europe's consultant editor for supply-chain has developed a short online survey on this subject - should take a couple on mins for you to complete - would be grateful if you could take time out to complete - the web link to the survey is as follows:
(Note: to access the survey, please contact the author)
Look forward to hearing your views
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Steve 'Dunkerley'
Project Director - Finance Director Europe (FDE)
United Kingdom
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What kinds of information and technology is used in Supply Chain communication?
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What kinds of information is being sent across companies in a Supply Chain? And what technology is helping you with that? I have been reading more about SCM lately, and I was wondering what kinds of information is being sent across companies? Is it all numbers and values ? Or unstructured data as well ?
And how is technology helping you to do this ? Do you share a specific platform across these companies? Or does every company has its own, and is this connected to one another ? Which software enables you to do so ?
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Marijn Somers
Functional Analyst/Project Leader
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Has anyone applied complexity theory to business in a practical way?
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Has anyone applied complexity theory to business in a practical way?
David, Instructional Designer, Performance Technologist and Project Manager |
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Have you read Forrest Breyfogle’s new book on Integrated Enterprise Excellence? Thoughts/comments?
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I recently read one of Forrest Breyfogle’s new books in his 4 book-volume series on the Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) System; i.e., "The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System: An Enhanced, Unified Approach to Balanced Scorecards, Strategic Planning, and Business Improvement." The subtitle to this book describes what is covered in varying details in the other three volumes. My sense is that Breyfogle has pushed his (and our) thinking to the next level and addressed issues that many of us struggle with regarding Continuous Improvement efforts. His “Integrated Enterprise” thinking makes sense to me, what are your thoughts or feedback? |
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How does the complexity theory apply to business? (A Brief Dialogue)
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Has anyone applied complexity theory to business in a practical way?
Asheville, U.S.
My Response:
The chaos theory and butterfly effect are interesting concepts in terms of the “complexity” of business.
Over a number of years and through funding from the Government of Canada’s Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Program I developed a theory called strand commonality.
In the area of supply chain practice for example (although the term “chain” is a misnomer in that it implies a sequential architecture instead of the synchronized architecture that represents the dynamic characteristics of different stakeholders within the real-world), one seeks to understand the unique operating attributes of individual stakeholders using an agent-based model.
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Small business financing - tapping into Ottawa\\\'s R&D tax incentive program
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| SRED is known as the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Tax Credit program. According to the Canadian Revenue Agency - the SRED program is meant for the businesses that conduct research and development in Canada. It is the largest source of funds from the government in regards to R&D programs that supports industrial research.
This article outlines the SRED eligibility requirements for small business. |
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Introduction: Fiscal Dimensions of Sustainable Development
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| One of the challenges facing the international community is to achieve
sustainable development. Sustainable development has three pillars—
economic development, social development, and environmental protection. |
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How does the complexity theory apply to business? (A Brief Dialogue)
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| Member Question:
Has anyone applied complexity theory to business in a practical way?
Asheville, U.S.
My Response:
The chaos theory and butterfly effect are interesting concepts in terms of the “complexity” of business.
Over a number of years and through funding from the Government of Canada’s Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Program I developed a theory called strand commonality.
In the area of supply chain practice for example (although the term “chain” is a misnomer in that it implies a sequential architecture instead of the synchronized architecture that represents the dynamic characteristics of different stakeholders within the real-world), one seeks to understand the unique operating attributes of individual stakeholders using an agent-based model.
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If You're So Good, Stop Thinking So Damn Much
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| Call it the "Nuke" Laloosh rule: People who know what they are doing should just stop futzing about and get on with things. The preceding is the main finding in a fascinating golf-driven (!) new paper in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: |
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How can my Canadian Company get a SR & ED Tax Credit Loan – Can SR ED’s be financed?
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| The article provides insight the ability of Canadian business to finance Scientific Research and Experimental Development tax credits, commonly known as SR ED, or SR &ED. |
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Website Trends
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| Internet is more than a decade old and over the years it has evolved many folds. It has grown from an experimental channel to the most prominent communication channel. Along with the Internet everything related to it has also changed. The most important partner in the growth is the core of Internet i.e. websites |
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Small business financing - tapping into Ottawa\\\'s R&D tax incentive program
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| SRED is known as the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Tax Credit program. According to the Canadian Revenue Agency - the SRED program is meant for the businesses that conduct research and development in Canada. It is the largest source of funds from the government in regards to R&D programs that supports industrial research.
This article outlines the SRED eligibility requirements for small business. |
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Agile Software Development – An Overview
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| Agile Software Development is a kind of software development approach in which development is based on group of methodologies of iterative and incremental development. |
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Software Development Services – What, Why & How???
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| Software development can also be called as application development, software design, designing enterprise application development or software application development. In common parlance, it is the development of a software product designed to ease a business process. |
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PHP Web Development Beneficial For Online Business
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| PHP Web development is much important for advanced web development among major web application services. PHP as an open source script language plays a vital role in web application development that is feature-rich, dynamic and user-friendly for custom website development. |
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Importance of Web Services for Web 2.0 Development
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| Web services itself describes all about website development and web application development related services. Its a vast area in internet technology and Web 2.0 development like web development, website designing, web application development, mobile application development and other web services. |
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