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Wesupply.com Partners with IBM to Deliver On Demand SCM(Supply Chain Management) Business Solutions to over 10,000 companies

EIPPworld.com — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:18:20 +0000

LONDON, 28 Jan 2008 - Wesupply.com has announced it has joined IBM's PartnerWorld Industry Networks to develop and deliver
solutions that meet customer requirements in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Industrial (Manufacturing), Building &
Construction, Automotive, Retail and Distribution industries.

The collaboration will allow both Wesupply.com and IBM to offer leading On Demand SCM products and solutions to customers, hosted
on IBM's On Demand infrastructure at IBM facilities. Customers are seeking solutions that can help them better integrate processes and

Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus - Student Mentoring Programme

John Leake — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:00:39 +0000

Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus has recently launched a student mentoring programme with local A level students. The programme links an entrepreneur with an A level student to provide mentoring to the student, in particular to broaden horizons and raise awareness about potential options in careers in science and technology.

Infolution's Information Research Tools and Code Engines Promise Better Results for Organizations Large & Small

Infolution — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:28:10 +0000

Today, for Microsoft and its prime search rivals, Google, Yahoo and IBM, contextual or semantic search, still appears as distant as the horizon itself.
However, today, thanks to patented research and innovative semantic search implementations productized at Infolution, more than 200 organizations globally (including Intel, Philips and U.S. Homeland Security) routinely enjoy enhanced contextual search results.
More information: Semantic Search by Infolution

How Not To Abandon Your e-Procurement Initiative

PI Blogger — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:08:44 +0000

In the September 2004 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine, Mark Henricks’ article (Flaw and Order) referenced behavioral economics studies that identified the eight hidden strategy flaws frequently championed by corporate decision-makers.

While all eight provide a most interesting read, the two that seem to relate specifically to the challenges associated with the majority of e-procurement initiatives are the sunk-cost effect and the herding instinct.

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The Privatization of PWGSC: Are Taxpayer Dollars Funding Private Sector Empire Building Within The Government Bureaucracy?

PI Blogger — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:53:25 +0000

You know the old story about peeling back the onion. While the title to today’s post may seem a tad fantastic it is not out of the realm of possibility, at least from an operational perspective. After all just ask the private insurance companies in Manitoba what they thought both before and after that provincial government introduced Autopac.

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