Combine winning strategies from centralised and decentralised models. What you’ll gain from this: leadership and local ownership… By: Gavin Bowden-Hall “Aggregation across the business will deliver commercial benefits but Procurement is best placed to spot the opportunities” As organisations become flatter so Procurement has to find new ways of delivering expertise into the business andRead… Read more »
While we are hearing a lot of talk about Procurement Shared Services from the corporate side, the public sector may be a step ahead on this one… By: SSON SSON interview with Paul Sutton, General Manager for Corporate Services at the City of Charles Sturt, Australia. “In terms of the marketing and communications area, that’sRead… Read more »
Bars, Pubs, Tea Houses and Coffee Shops… these are all places where diverse groups and individuals get together and co-mingle. Steven B. Johnson (@stevenbjohnson), in his book “Where Good Ideas Come From,” describes how in coffee shops and places like them, many innovations were born: The science of electricity The insurance industry Modern democracy InRead… Read more »
The following is a guest post from Whitney Zatzkin, Policy and Advocacy Manager at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. A member of the Coalition for Health Funding, she attended a Congressional briefing on the role of public health in disaster recovery on September 12, 2011. More information on this and future events isRead… Read more »
SharePoint Saturday L.A. interview courtesy of Christian Buckley of Axceler a few months back Original post
Interesting tweets about a proposed, free, and open Digital Public Law Library of America ( #DPLLA ) started/inspired by @emasters @johnpmayer @jpalfrey @kenhirsh . (Elmer’s #OccupytheLaw tweet immediately preceded this thread.) See especially Dean Palfrey’s chair lecture and article.
Stocks continued their volatile ways as we saw several big moves again this past week. The action on Tuesday, which included a big turnaround on high volume, is the type of move you might see at a market bottom, but the chart formations are still looking bearish. After a weak start on Monday and intoRead… Read more »
What are the latest info on Govloop, i have been out for a long time now; so gonna give me the new feeds here. Love Govloop so dearly.
Slides are available for many of the presentations given at CTC 2011: The 2011 Court Technology Conference (Twitter hashtag #ctc2011), held 4-6 October 2011 in Long Beach, California, USA. The presentations included: Dean Peter W. Martin of Cornell University Law School on Abandoning Law Reports for Official Digital Case Law; James E. McMillan of theRead… Read more »
The Intelligence Community’s Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) office of “incisive analysis” has been evaluating plans, projects and proposals submitted in response to a broad solicitation of inputs on a very interesting construct. They have embarked on a new, smarter way of gleaning technology trends. We first learned publicly of this activity in 2010 whenRead… Read more »