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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) focus increases in China

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · LCCS and trade, enviro/social sustainability, supply management, supply risk

In recent years Low Cost Country Sourcing (LCCS) has been a huge initiative in many sourcing organizations resulting in relationships with suppliers in regions like China. Riding on this wave is the call for companies to have a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to the consumers who purchase their products. This is not just [...]

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Gibson Guitars: “Suppliers May Lie”, the real translation of Caveat Emptor

November 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · LCCS and trade, enviro/social sustainability, sourcing, supply management, supply risk

One of the recurring themes of the New Normal is the increasing complexity of and reliance on extended supply chains with many participants beyond the Tier 1 supplier. Gibson Guitar was given a first-hand (and very unwelcome) lesson in this reality just yesterday when its manufacturing plant in Nashville was raided by the US [...]

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Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst

October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · best practices, enviro/social sustainability, supply management, supply market dynamics, supply risk

At the Atlanta Spend Management Day yesterday, Kurt Albertson, Director of Advisory Services with The Hackett Group, examined past predictions and gave some new insight into 2010 predictions and beyond.
According to Hackett’s forecasts from July 2008, the 2009  economy was going to create the “perfect storm.” It was a time to secure up supply, highlight [...]

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Help the kids! Final push for DonorsChoose.org Social Media Challenge

October 27th, 2009 · No Comments · enviro/social sustainability

The DonorsChoose.org Social Media Challenge is in its final week and it’s been a huge success thus far. All together, over 300k has been raised from nearly 4,000 donors. Best of all, due to DonorsChoose.org’s model - where donors give directly to individual projects posted by teachers - we know that 94,609 students have been [...]

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SaaS: A win for budgets, CIOs and sustainability?

October 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · On Demand/SaaS, best practices, enviro/social sustainability

SaaS has been gaining traction partially due to it’s ability to help companies adapt to the new state of “normal” they will face as we emerge from the global recession. SaaS and the “cloud” computing model help contain costs, shorten implementation cycles and enable CIOs to focus on more strategic initiatives rather than expensive hardware [...]

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