Strategies for success in procurement Supplychainer Aberdeen Group recently made a survey and interviewed procurement executives at 100 global enterprises. The research, published in a report entitled "The CPO's Agenda," found that procurement's role in strategic operations has increased dramatically over …

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The right-leaning Drudge Report made it a habit in November and December to trumpet any and all headlines relating to the “Climategate” controversy — the story involving hacked emails attacking critics of global warming, which found their way onto the Internet. Those emails raised suspicions among global warming deniers of a conspiracy to hide or destroy climate data that would help make their case. A House of Commons inquiry cleared Jones of any possible wrongdoing, but a day later, that headline was nowhere to be found on the Drudge Report.

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After six years of battle, a federal jury has ruled that Novell owns the rights to the Unix operating system. In 2003, the SCO Group began campaigning to get Linux users to pay it license fees, arguing that unspecified SCO intellectual property had been improperly included in Linux. SCO filed suit against Novell in 2004, claiming slander of title. Now, following the District Court of Utah’s decision, the case has finally been put to rest, causing widespread jubilation at Novell and throughout the Linux community.

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Saddled with a home-grown business-management tool originally designed for Best Buy’s retail business, the growing business unit sought a solution that would support its extensive outside sales force and would provide a commercial CRM solution it could sell to business customers. Best Buy for Business found both in Microsoft Dynamics® CRM. It rolled out Microsoft Dynamics CRM to more than 150 consultants in the field and has plans to extend this to its entire team of consultants. Today, the company has a robust solution that supports its complex sales cycle and integrates easily with the business tools employees use every day. Request Free!

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Supply Watch report subscribers likely know about this (and have hopefully registered already), but the Category Management team is holding one of their Top 5 Categories to Source Now webinars tomorrow. The details:
Thursday April 1st at 11am Eastern Time (3:00 GMT)
Register here.
On the agenda tomorrow are:

Mike Petro, Lead Category Manager, North America
Loriann Andersen, Category Manager, [...]

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