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		<title>Spend Hydroplaning — Purchasing Magazine Skims the Surface of Spend Analysis (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/10/spend-hydroplaning-purchasing-magazine-skims-the-surface-of-spend-analysis-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpendMatters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jason Busch]]></category>
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				I've been asked on more than a half-dozen occasions to spend a day with clients (both practitioners and vendors/services providers) to provide my view of the rapidly unfolding spend analysis landscape, discussing a diversity of approaches to identify...
				
				
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		<title>Avoid the Five Traps of Performance Measurement</title>
		<link>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/10/avoid-the-five-traps-of-performance-measurement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the doctor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Performance measurement, the foundation of supplier performance management, scorecards, and outsourcing deals, is a key to supply chain success but, like everything else, it has to be done right.  That's why I enjoyed the article on the five traps of performance measurement (subscription required) that the Harvard Business Review published late last year.  If you avoid your traps, you greatly improve your chances of success.   Measuring Against Yourself     While you should measure against past performance and goals to insure that you're improving, what ultimately matters is how well you're doing against the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Coupa Heads for the Clouds — eProcurement, T&amp;E and Beyond (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/10/coupa-heads-for-the-clouds-eprocurement-te-and-beyond-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpendMatters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jason Busch]]></category>

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				A few weeks back, Coupa announced their latest solution release which includes a number of enhancements and new capabilities. I had the chance to catch up with Coupa prior to the announcement and also took a closer look at their latest solution relea...
				
				
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		<title>Coupon Clipping: Extreme Savings, Hording or OCD</title>
		<link>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/09/coupon-clipping-extreme-savings-hording-or-ocd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/09/coupon-clipping-extreme-savings-hording-or-ocd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpendMatters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[William Busch]]></category>

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				I've never been much of a coupon clipper. For one thing, I rarely see coupons for the things I buy. When I do, they either expire before I use them, or -- if I remember having clipped them -- I can't find the coupon when I need it. And more important...
				
				
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		<title>AMR Answers Top-of-Mind Questions from Recent Webinar</title>
		<link>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/09/amr-answers-top-of-mind-questions-from-recent-webinar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spend Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supplier Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supply Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spend visibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[webinar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the recent webinar, Correcting Your Spend Vision with Visibility, Mickey North Rizza, research director with AMR Research, discussed implementing spend visibility tools to bring more spend under management, gaining competitive advantage through analytics.
During the webinar, we received three really great questions from our audience, and wanted to share Mickey&#8217;s responses covering maverick spend, data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even Lawyers Agree: Put Procurement “Firmly at the Core” of Outsourcing Strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/09/even-lawyers-agree-put-procurement-firmly-at-the-core-of-outsourcing-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpendMatters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jason Busch]]></category>

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				I read the summary of a new report from down under earlier today that was not remarkable for its findings, but for its authors -- a group of lawyers (at Norton Rose) who came to the same conclusion as any reasonable group of procurement or operations...
				
				
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		<title>What Level of Procurement Performance Are You At?</title>
		<link>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/09/what-level-of-procurement-performance-are-you-at/</link>
		<comments>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/09/what-level-of-procurement-performance-are-you-at/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>the doctor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Procurement Innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Pierre Mitchell of The Hackett Group asked you if you knew the difference between procurement value and procurement performance (part I and part II) over on Spend Matters and invited you to  participate in a study that would help you identify where you were on your procurement journey by way of 18 value streams that range from "naive apprentice", where you're measuring performance at an elementary level, to "expert sorcerer", where you're extracting procurement value at a very advanced level.  (Pierre also posted a link to a corresponding finance study that will help Hackett compile a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Will new regulation curb outsourcing/offshoring by banks?</title>
		<link>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/09/will-new-regulation-curb-outsourcingoffshoring-by-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/09/will-new-regulation-curb-outsourcingoffshoring-by-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TPI</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Smith, TPI
The Administration has proposed a set of new rules to increase regulation of the banking industry. While we don&#8217;t know what the final outcome will look like, we do know that changes will be focused on lending, bank structure, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Tuesday: Rising to the Travel Compliance Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/09/travel-tuesday-rising-to-the-travel-compliance-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/09/travel-tuesday-rising-to-the-travel-compliance-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpendMatters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jason Busch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Services Procurement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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				Continuing our new ?Travel Tuesday? column, this week we'll cover some of the travel Spend Management basics. Today, I?ll refer Spend Matters? readers to a recent Purchasing Magazine study that provides a useful state of the market when it comes to t...
				
				
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		<title>Iasta honored with 4 honoree’s as 2010 “Pro’s to Know”</title>
		<link>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/09/iasta-honored-with-4-honorees-as-2010-pros-to-know/</link>
		<comments>http://www.procureiq.com/2010/03/09/iasta-honored-with-4-honorees-as-2010-pros-to-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DWilmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Supply &#38; Demand Chain Executive Magazine, the executive&#8217;s user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, this week announced the tenth annual listing of Pros to Know in the Supply Chain Industry.
The Pros to Know is a list...]]></description>
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