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		<title>Best Buy Uses the Supply Chain to Drive Innovation &#8211; Fernando Silva</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fernando Silva, Best Buy�s director of Private Label Product Lines, will be delivering a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Supply Chain Academy that will leave no doubt that we live in a consumer-centric world, in which collaboration from all areas of the supply chain should drive innovation. At Best Buy, customer-centricity means �treating each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Incentive of Crossing That Bridge Again &#8211; M. Browne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hmm, should I pick up the phone or send an email to my old contact from what seems like decades ago. Will they receive me well or just view my contact with them as a deliberate attempt to rekindle the past for a purpose or will we laugh about funny things from the past like it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Hire Positive Employees for Your Business &#8211; Joey Faucette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No entrepreneur is an island. You were created to work with others in a positive environment. Your business success depends on you attracting customers and employees with whom you work well together. Such cooperation challenges the familiar notions of achieving success by becoming a self-made person and pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. Despite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strategicconcepts-ca.com/news/articles/how-to-hire-positive-employees-for-your-business-joey-faucette/</link>
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		<title>The VIP Treatment &#8211; M. Browne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no better gift than sharing of one&#8217;s self with others. When we do so, we are spending time giving and investing in the relationship.  We all need each other in this world and there is nothing more fulfilling than sharing yourself with others. Each hour we spend with someone else is an opportunity for enrichment. No social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Steps to Painless Inventory Management &#8211; Lisa Girard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inventory management is not the sort of thing that gets most entrepreneurs&#8217; blood flowing&#8211;until their inventory manager leaves. That&#8217;s exactly what happened to Marc Isaacson, the CEO of online integrative pharmacy Village Green Apothecary, in 2008. Isaacson filled the position by promoting a purchasing assistant. Before long, the company was running out of its most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strategicconcepts-ca.com/news/articles/five-steps-to-painless-inventory-management-lisa-girard/</link>
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		<title>The Incentive of Using Other People&#8217;s &#8211; People M. Browne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are not a believer in networking in the social media world, you best jump into the pool of belief now. Six degrees of separation has been reduced to 1 ot 2 degrees thanks to social media. Yes, we all sacrifice a bit of privacy but the valuable incentive is that we are meeting other people&#8217;s people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strategicconcepts-ca.com/news/articles/the-incentive-of-using-other-peoples-people-m-browne/</link>
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		<title>How a Walmart Brainchild Is Helping 80 Companies Reduce Their Environmental Impacts &#8211; Al Brendenberg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An industry organization called The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), initiated by Walmart in 2009, recently released a new set of “Category Sustainability Profiles,” analyses of the environmental impacts of products in 10 important consumer product categories such as coffee, toilet tissue, televisions, laptop computers, and yogurt. Helen van Hoeven of the World Wildlife Fund and a board [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strategicconcepts-ca.com/news/articles/how-a-walmart-brainchild-is-helping-80-companies-reduce-their-environmental-impacts-al-brendenberg/</link>
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		<title>The global supply chain: So very fragile &#8211; Bill Powell, Editor at Large</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manufacturers have spent years building low-cost global supply chains. Natural disasters are showing them just how delicate those networks really are. FORTUNE &#8212; The image to the right is almost surreal: It shows part of a Honda auto factory in central Thailand, one of the largest in Southeast Asia, swamped under 15 feet of water, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strategicconcepts-ca.com/news/articles/the-global-supply-chain-so-very-fragile-bill-powell-editor-at-large/</link>
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		<title>Giving to Thy Self as You Give &#8211; M. Browne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is Christmas time and everyone is wondering how to buy gifts on a super tight budget. We would all like to give gifts to all those that make our lives a little bit easier, provide good service or teach our children but the reality is we have must carefully pick and choose who will receive. There is no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.strategicconcepts-ca.com/news/articles/giving-to-thy-self-as-you-give-m-browne/</link>
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		<title>Eco-friendly supply chain &#8211; Jeanne Bonner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Companies have found that having an eco-friendly supply chain can save money. Being green is the hottest trend to hit the corporate world since outsourcing. Companies have spent a fortune re-branding themselves as green, and have paid special attention to recycling, protecting endangered forests, sourcing local products and managing water consumption during the manufacturing process.  But [...]]]></description>
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