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Sourcing vs. Procurement- The Tug of War
Traditional organizations have a common team which handles sourcing, as well as procurement activities. They generally find that transactional procurement activities take precedence over sourcing. This leads to savings leakages, opportunities lost and compliance issues. So, what are the ways out?
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Financing Cost - Ways to Reduce the Cost of Financing Energy Delivered to Customers
Traditionally a utility purchases energy and then supplies it to customers. Customer energy consumptions are measured, and bills are generated and sent to them. This means that the utility provides energy to a customer on credit basis, and the credit is settled once the payment is received.
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Lessons in Public Speaking
It’s not often that we hear CIOs of organizations, which have revenues in excess of eight billion U.S dollars talk. He peppered his talk with many anecdotes smiled a lot, and these small things made a big difference. Try these out when you have to speak next time!
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Testing Infrastructure - Ignorant or Innocence
Are testing organizations ignorant or innocent? After reading this paper, you can agree that it is both. Due to lack of skill, understanding, its limited ability to influence change in TI, testing organizations continues to be innocent. However, it is ignorant about utilization and downtime management.
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Forced or Not? You Know the Price
Legacy packages come with lot of tools/ features, which are rarely used by organizations. While browsing through pages of some leading Cloud-based CRM players, a sentence on Microsoft Dynamics CRM website caught my attention: "Don't Get Forced, Get What Fits.
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Electric, Hybrid or Gasoline: Illusion, Fusion or Confusion
What type of vehicle has the lowest carbon footprint and is most eco-friendly. At first instance, it would look like electric vehicle is the best without a doubt. No tailpipe emissions and hence no harm to the environment. Well, this is not the complete picture. Rather, this starts another interesting debate.
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Supply Chain Visibility Solutions- Means to an End?
We had been getting number of enquiries from many of our customers on best practices in Supply Chain visibility solutions. The requirement ranges from basic supplier portal on one end of the spectrum, to full-fledged Cloud enabled end-to-end Supply Chain visibility solutions.
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Cloudanomics for Business Intelligence - Part Two
This blog will bring forth ideas which can help a Cloud BI customer. It will edify on how a service provider can maximize the overall benefits out of a Cloud setup, and reap advantages. This blog will also answer - how organizations can maximize values derived from a Cloud setup?
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