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  • Automation 2.0

    By Kevin O'Marah | May 16, 2009, 7:55am PDT

    Yesterday the AMR team met with Rockwell Automation’s senior leadership group including CEO Keith Nosbusch to spend an entire day digging into the trends and challenges in today’s...

  • Atoms or electrons: How does Hasbro make money?

    By AMR Research | May 1, 2009, 8:45am PDT

    The global supply chain reaches all the way from Rhode Island to China and back.  Tonka trucks, GI Joe action figures and my Little Pony are all real products sold to real kids.  People who obsess...

  • China and IP: the piper will get paid

    By Kevin O'Marah | April 28, 2009, 9:21am PDT

    As everyone knows, and as our quarterly supply chain risk data proves, China is a den of thieves as far as IP is concerned.  Today’s New York Times has a lengthy and prominent article on...

  • Process Readiness: Are you ready to run a Marathon?

    By AMR Research | April 23, 2009, 12:05pm PDT

    April 19 is Patriot’s Day in Boston.  The reenactment of the Shot Heard Round the World on Lexington Green, the parades, the Red Sox—maybe I’ll pop over to Hopkinton and run the 26 miles of the...

  • Next big land rush: believe it or not, is knowledge management

    By Kevin O'Marah | April 10, 2009, 8:11am PDT

    This sounds silly for anyone who has ever been involved in the typical hapless library exercise of a digital “knowledge management” initiative.  The lasting image for most of these...

  • Sun and IBM Breaking Up: Who Wins?

    By Kevin O'Marah | April 6, 2009, 10:00am PDT

    The news today about IBM and Sun possibly going separate ways leaves a door open for others to dodge what could have been a pretty blockbuster combination.  I remember back in late 90’s how...

  • IBM and Sun: Is it about the hardware or the software?

    By Ian Finley | March 19, 2009, 8:02am PDT

    The Wall Street Journal reports IBM is in acquisition talks with Sun Microsystems. At this point, the companies are refusing to comment on the rumor. If it comes to pass, the acquisition would...

  • Congratulations Marc… The next $billion will be harder

    By Bruce Richardson | March 17, 2009, 8:41am PDT

    In 10 years, salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff has turned CRM-as-a-service into a $1B business with 55,400 customers.  Both numbers are impressive.  It took SAP more than 35 years and an...

  • Connecting the Spend Management Dots with Contracts

    By Mickey North Rizza | March 13, 2009, 11:49am PDT

    While not exactly a well-known name, Zycus continues its spend management expertise by rounding out its sourcing suite with Contract management.  Targeted towards the sourcing and procurement...

  • Microsoft Convergence 2009: Hybrid Technology

    By Chris Fletcher | March 12, 2009, 7:26am PDT

    Hybrids are the buzz in the auto industry, and now hybrid applications may be the next buzz in technology, both in licensed, behind-the-firewall mode as well as developed and hosted in the cloud....

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