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September 14, 2011

Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value

September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 14SEP2011 from http://hbr.org/product/higher-ambition-how-great-leaders-create-economic-/an/... Organizations must choose between people and profits, right? Wrong, argue the authors of Higher Ambition. In fact, as global competition stif...

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September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Globalization
September 14, 2011

Maximizing the Benefits of Software as a Service

September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 14SEP2011 from http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-maximizing-benefits-software-as-... As organizations adopt software as a service from a variety of sources, the need for a holistic approach with proper governance frameworks is...

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September 14, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Socio-Technical
September 13, 2011

Building a Resilient Supply Chain

September 13, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 14SEP2011 from http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/supply-chain/?nicam=Twitter&ni... "This collection of research addresses the new realities of today's supply network to help position supply chain executives for success in 2011 a...

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September 13, 2011

Integrated Transportation Management

September 13, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Downloaded 14SEP2011 from http://t.co/a6xl1kf By Jason Cook, Pierre Mawet, Jennifer Seeley (Accenture, 2011) "Accenture surveyed more than 1,500 supply chain executives on the key capabilities they needed to master their supply chain..." (p. 4) "b...

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September 13, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ 1 Comment
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September 13, 2011

Making Collaborative BI Happen

September 13, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 14SEP2011 from http://smartdatacollective.com/brett-stupakevich/40138/making-collaborative-b... Good tools for collaboration are not enough by themselves. If people aren’t open to the give-and-take of collaboration, or the institutional ...

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September 13, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Analytics, Favorites in Socio-Technical, Socio-Technical
September 13, 2011

Bidirectional Business Intelligence

September 13, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 14SEP2011 from http://smartdatacollective.com/david-abramson/40127/bidirectional-business-in... Bidirectional BI turns business intelligence into an interactive application – one that can be deeply integrated into the operational systems...

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September 13, 2011

CILT warns against risky long supply chains

September 13, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 14SEP2011 from http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=16892 The report entitled “Vision 2035” examines the future of logistics and transport, and warns against overlong supply chains that are at risk of disrupt...

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September 12, 2011

Externality and materiality as themes in the history of the human sciences

September 12, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 12SEP2011 from http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-029220080001... [A philosophical view of concepts that correspond, only at a very deep level, to concepts by the same name in Economics and Finance. This transdi...

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September 12, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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September 09, 2011

A Community Strategy

September 09, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 09SEP2011 from http://socialmediatoday.com/leighdow/353138/want-evangelists-get-community-st... Sometimes we get calls from clients looking for "buzz'" via social channels. Social is great for generating viral "buzz", but for many compan...

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September 09, 2011

Customers of Manhattan Associates

September 09, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 09SEP2011 from http://logisticsweek.com/supply-chain-2/2011/09/manhattan-customers-rank-all-... In addition to the overall MCM 100 list, Manhattan customers ranked high in several sub-categories: Eight of the Top 10 Mixed Gender Apparel ...

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September 09, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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4PL
September 09, 2011

Make B2B Communities Essential Through Process Improvement

September 09, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 09SEP2011 from http://socialmediatoday.com/vanessa-dimauro/352941/make-b2b-communities-essen... ...the strategic impact of many online communities may not be clear to the larger organization that funds the effort. This is especially comm...

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Socio-Technical
September 09, 2011

Why Businesses Must Adopt a Multi-Channel Messaging Strategy

September 09, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 09SEP2011 from http://mashable.com/2011/09/09/consumers-technology/ Social media and smartphones are disrupting the established patterns and practices for B2C interactions. To be successful, businesses have to engage with customers throu...

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September 09, 2011

Response of the Business Ecosystem to Fraud and Financial Crime

September 09, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 09SEP2011 from http://www.accenture-blogpodium.nl/latest-post/new-environment-of-fraud/ Posted on September 9th, 2011 at 12:07 pm by Tom van der Spek Like stated in my first blog post, Insurance fraud is becoming an increasingly bigger p...

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September 09, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Analytics, Security
September 09, 2011

Supply chain accreditation

September 09, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 09SEP2011 from http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=16870 Lloyds Register of Quality Assurance has been awarded for ISO 28000 certification by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service. The certification is fo...

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Security
September 09, 2011

Curate the Curators

September 09, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracte 09SEP2011 fromhttp://blog.tweetsmarter.com/twitter-community/on-twitter-curate-people-not-just-information/ ...to get a lot out of Twitter for yourself, you need to find other great curators. In other words, you need to become a curator o...

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September 09, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Socio-Technical
September 09, 2011

Cargo Partners Start e freight Academy

September 09, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 09SEP2011 from http://www.handyshippingguide.com/shipping-news/cargo-partners-start-e-freigh... The Academy is an innovative web-based learning tool that has been created and is being further developed by STOAS, one of the Netherlands’ f...

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September 08, 2011

Sustainability and Materiality in the Cloud

September 08, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 08SEP2011 from http://sustainablebusinessforum.com/elainecohen1/53879/sustainability-cloud?u... Posted September 6, 2011 by Elaine Cohen I recently reviewed Workday Inc.'s 2010 Sustainability Report for CorporateRegister.com. Workday Inc...

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September 08, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ 1 Comment
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September 08, 2011

Chinese NGO Complaints about Apple Supply Chain Sustainability

September 08, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 08SEP2011 from http://sustainablebusinessforum.com/davemeyer01/53880/chinese-ngo-claims-appl... Posted September 6, 2011 by Dave Meyer ...Six months ago, I presented my thoughts about a report by Chinese NGO Institute of Public and Envir...

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September 08, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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September 07, 2011

IFC Annual Report for 2010

September 07, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 07SEP2011 from http://www1.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/CORP_EXT_Content/IFC_External_Corporate_S... IFC, the largest international development institution focused on the private sector, is helping link dynamic companies and industries with t...

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September 07, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Globalization
September 07, 2011

20th Annual Study of Logistics and Transportation Trends

September 07, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 07SEP2011 from http://www.logisticsmgmt.com/article/navigating_transportations_bermuda_trian... The Bermuda Triangle facing logistics and supply chain managers consists of: (1) a lack of planning for the impact of rising fuel prices; (2)...

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September 07, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Favorites in Logistics-Transportation, Logistics-Transportation
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