Mar 4, 2017
This week we announced the theme of our upcoming Supply Chain Resource Cooperative meeting. The theme of the meeting, “Mapping the Road Ahead in Uncertain Times”, brings together a number…
Jan 25, 2017
Here’s a new insight by Tim Barnes in a guest blog this week, after Donald Trump announced the withdrawal from the Trans Pacific Partnership for the United States. I’ve been traveling…
Dec 14, 2016
OK, so Trump won, Clinton lost. Get over it, it’s a done deal. Time to move on, and figure out what this means in terms of how the global economy…
Nov 13, 2016
On election night last week, I was stationed in Calgary Alberta, watching the results unfold in Mountain Time, and wondering what was going on in the country I’ve adopted as…
Jul 22, 2015
I had the opportunity to engage in a negotiation seminar with a large insurance company last week, and had the team work on a software contract role play. In the…
Feb 10, 2015
Acquisition in the federal government has been identified as a major source of potential savings in the future, as in the private sector, but a recent set of workshops and…
Mar 10, 2012
The significant challenges associated with federal acquisition policies are well documented. Many problems with government acquisition are related to contract management, often mentioned as a core competence for federal contract…
Mar 9, 2012
The problems with the federal procurement process are well documented in the literature. Bloggers have also suggested that new approaches be adopted by federal acquisition contract officers to apply the practice…
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