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	<title>Supply Excellence</title>
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	<description>Next Generation Strategies for Supply Management</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Peer Discussion Tomorrow with Roy Anderson: What will procurement look like in 2020?</title>
		<link>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2011/03/30/peer-discussion-tomorrow-with-roy-anderson-what-will-procurement-look-like-in-2020/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw an advance copy of the &#8220;Procurement 2020&#8243; report last week..and it&#8217;s got some VERY interesting insights and provocative questions from industry leaders. One of the CPOs interviewed for the report is Roy Anderson, former MetLife CPO and current VP of Procurement Services at Metasys Technologies. Roy offered to speak with the Strategic Sourcing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help with The Hackett Group survey on Inflation and get a copy of results</title>
		<link>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2011/03/01/help-with-the-hackett-group-survey-on-inflation-and-get-a-copy-of-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perfect timing for The Hackett Group&#8217;s survey on inflation and its impact on procurement and supply chains. This week the topic of inflation is sure to be front and center on the businesss section of any newspaper as US Fed Chairman Bernanke goes before Congress for his semiannual report. With inflation (or at least the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Maureen Kelsey: Change &amp; Transformation</title>
		<link>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2011/02/24/interview-with-maureen-kelsey-change-transformation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2011/02/24/interview-with-maureen-kelsey-change-transformation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[change management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This Thursday at 9am Pacific Time, I&#8217;m moderating the monthly member call for the LinkedIn group Strategic Sourcing &#38; Procurement. Group members know that I choose the topic every month based on feedback, ideas and volunteers from the members. So when Maureen Kelsey stepped up and offered to share some of her insights on &#8216;change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peer Discussion Replay: &#8220;What&#8217;s on your Dashboard?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2011/02/09/peer-discussion-replay-whats-on-your-dashboard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2011/02/09/peer-discussion-replay-whats-on-your-dashboard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[spend analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, we kicked off the 2011 Strategic Sourcing &#38; Procurement LinkedIn group member conference calls with a lively discussion of Dashboards. What&#8217;s on them?, How did you decide what to measure?, How do you share them?, Where are they heading in the future?, and a host of other related topics made for a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What&#8217;s on your Dashboard?&#8221; - Join the call to discuss</title>
		<link>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2011/01/27/whats-on-your-dashboard-join-the-call-to-discuss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2011/01/27/whats-on-your-dashboard-join-the-call-to-discuss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get 2011 off to a great start with our January Strategic Sourcing &#38; Procurement LinkedIn group member call on Dashboards. The topic has come up often in the group. So it&#8217;s time to get our collective heads together and share Dashboard challenges, best practices, metrics and anything else that helps us quantify performance, success [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Replay: &#8216;Unpacking Oliver&#8217; Discussion with Kate Vitasek</title>
		<link>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2011/01/13/replay-unpacking-oliver-discussion-with-kate-vitasek/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2011/01/13/replay-unpacking-oliver-discussion-with-kate-vitasek/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[contract management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully you were able to attend the December Strategic Sourcing &#38; Procurement LinkedIn group member call with Kate Vitasek last month. We had a lively discussion centered around the paper she co-wrote - “Unpacking Oliver - 10 Lessons to Improve Collaborative Outsourcing “ (download here). Nobel Laureate Dr Oliver Williamson&#8217;s work dug into the incentives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fill in the blanks: &#8220;2010 was ___. And my goal for 2011 is ___.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2010/12/21/goals-for-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2010/12/21/goals-for-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Another year is nearly behind us. As we&#8217;re counting the minutes before holiday parties, vacations and ski trips, I thought it would be good to reflect on 2010 and look forward to 2011. And since I know everyone is busy scrambling to meet business and personal deadlines, let&#8217;s do this short and sweet. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Kate Vitasek on Collaborative Outsourcing</title>
		<link>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2010/12/02/qa-with-kate-vitasek-on-collaborative-outsourcing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2010/12/02/qa-with-kate-vitasek-on-collaborative-outsourcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kate Vitasek, who literally wrote the book on Vested Outsourcing and spoke on that topic on a Strategic Sourcing &#38; Procurement LinkedIn Group member call earlier this year, has volunteered to lead our Nov/Dec Group member call to discuss&#8230;
&#8220;Unpacking Oliver - 10 Lessons to Improve Collaborative Outsourcing &#8220;
The paper (which you&#8217;ll want to download here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Hotel Built in 2 Days (Now THAT&#8217;S Collaboration!)</title>
		<link>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2010/11/19/green-hotel-built-in-2-days-now-thats-collaboration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2010/11/19/green-hotel-built-in-2-days-now-thats-collaboration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[LCCS and trade]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[enviro/social sustainability]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[metals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Sourcing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I would really love to hear the collaborative conversations that must have gone on with the suppliers that made constructing this 15 story green hotel in China in just 2 days possible.

This is where the business world is headed. The right suppliers working with the buyer of choice to innovate.
Justin Fogarty is Managing Editor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discuss &#8216;Nuisance Spend&#8217; with your peers tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2010/10/28/discuss-nuisance-spend-with-your-peers-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/2010/10/28/discuss-nuisance-spend-with-your-peers-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[financial value chain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I&#8217;m moderating the October LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing &#38; Procurement group member call. This month&#8217;s topic is &#8216;Nuisance Spend&#8217; - that low volume, high SKU count spend that can be the most difficult to bring under management.
As always, we&#8217;ll be encouraging participation - questions, insights  and discussion - from the audience. These calls are [...]]]></description>
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