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		<title>Live from LIVE: Good New about the Global Economy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned yesterday, I was really looking forward to Professor Charlie Wheelan&#8217;s talk on the Global Economy and he lived up to my expectations. Given that his work deals with the intersection of economics and public policy, it&#8217;s no surprise that the context of his talk was around the choices we face as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live from Ariba LIVE in Las Vegas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on the ground in Vegas after a short, bumpy flight from San Jose. As you may already know, Ariba LIVE 2008 kicks off here tonight (that is if I&#8217;m allowed to consider a reception at Tao as &#8216;on the clock&#8217;). So there will be three days full of sourcing, procurement, finance and legal professionals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/12/ariba-live-kick-off/</link>
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		<title>Paper, Plastic or BYOB (bring-your-own-bag)?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve come a long way since San Francisco&#8217;s City Council banned plastic bags 13 months ago. At the time, the move seen as more of a late night TV punch line than a serious attempt to promote environmental sustainability. But in the wake of more legislated bans (as China, Ireland, Uganda and a host of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/12/plastic-bag-ban-green-brand/</link>
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		<title>Chrysler&#8217;s Supply Plan: Back the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Knowing my passion for the Detroit turnaround, CPO Agenda Editor Geraint John this week turned me on to his exclusive interview with Chrysler&#8217;s new procurement chief John Campi. As noted here, the ex-Home Depot supply management lead has his work cut out for him. Chrysler has the least buying power of the Big Three and, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/09/chrysler-supply-chain/</link>
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		<title>Who Owns (Outsourced) Medical Records?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today featured terrifying reports about the state of medical records today. WSJ highlighted the incompetence and abuse by insurance companies, hospitals and the federal government, who have exposed private information about hundreds of thousands of patients in recent months. The incidents ranged from inadvertent posting of records [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/08/patient-medical-records-outsourcing/</link>
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		<title>Tip of the Iceberg: Transportation, Steel &#038; Raw Materials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Supply Excellence&#8217;s Managing Editor (which is a euphemism for &#8220;Principal Cat Herder&#8221;), I would be a remiss if I didn&#8217;t point out that the blogging efforts by many of our contributors are a byproduct of their &#8216;day jobs.&#8217; These folks spend their days digging deep into their respective categories to uncover the opportunities and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/06/commodity-news-supplywatch/</link>
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		<title>Fortune 500 Strategies for Globalization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Cinco De Mayo issue of Fortune, the magazine presents this year&#8217;s Fortune 500, their annual list of the 500 largest United States based corporations. As you might expect, it&#8217;s a treasure trove of interesting facts and highlights some very different approaches to the challenges and opportunities of globalization.
Page 225 has a great chart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/05/fortune-500-globalization/</link>
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		<title>Spend Management Town Hall: Shifting Global Trade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we last left our daring trio of Spend Management Town Hall panelists, they were debating the best ways to get a handle on services spend in the ever tightening global economy. The esteemed panel, which included the CPOs from both Kellogg&#8217;s and Whirlpool, had turned their sites on services spending to counter the double-digit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/02/global-trade-town-hall/</link>
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		<title>Do Outsourcing Savings = Sales Losses?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business Week&#8217;s Bangalore Tigers blog had a very interesting post this week on how one Indian BPO firm is using sophisticated algorithms to measure what they call a &#8220;confusion index&#8221;, which identifies customer support callers who are likely to be converted to buyers. Those hot prospects are then routed to highly skilled reps who are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/01/outsourcing-customer-service-risks/</link>
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		<title>Global Sourcing: 10 Tips for LCCS Strategy Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Chamber of Commerce in China released it&#8217;s annual white paper on the state of American business in China and it seems to back up a lot of what we&#8217;ve all been hearing lately; the cost of doing business in China is increasing. With 2/3 of US businesses claiming rising labor costs and other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/04/29/lccs-strategy-tips/</link>
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