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Making friends with procurement
No, your procurement department (or strategic sourcing, strategic spend management, purchasing or marketing services), isn’t going away. If anything, especially in daunting economic times, its influence is growing as companies seek to cut costs and reduce waste. While its role varies depending on the company, procurement most likely is involved in the RFP and RFI...
Virgin Galactic Takes Flight
This is the story of the maiden voyage of Virgin Spaceship Enterprise and how the company known for being ahead of the curve showed 800 VIPs and members of the press on Dec. 7, in Mojave, CA, that it wasn’t restricted by anything—even the curvature of the Earth.
The 411 on H1N1
For all of its events, Microsoft has a security and health mitigation plan in place. Until last year, it had rarely ever needed to put it into practice. Then came a case of the swine flu just days before its Imagine Cup 2009 event, held July 3-8 in Cairo, Egypt. Students from all over the...