昨晚的CIPS研究人讨论了关于特许成员地位的未来的讨论，采购如何在未来50年内定位本身，以及我在开玩笑的是谁，这是一个葡萄酒般的夜晚！在塔式桥梁室的迷人环境中，在塔楼桥下，我们的竞争半盲品色为八葡萄酒。“竞争力”元素略有解体，但这是一个非常好的夜晚，善意赞助聪明的立方体and organised by Shirley Cooper and her excellent Fellows’ Committee who have really re-invigorated the whole Fellows thing. I really should get a Smartphone with a camera flash but ten points if you can spot the two CIPS Past Presidents in this atmospheric pic!
猜测哪个公共部门的CPO，当面对他的第一杯品尝时，“我邓诺，它是它Boddingtons”的？
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If you are interested in music, technology and business, or at least two of the three, you will find这篇文章由Mark Rogowsky在Forbes上a fascinating read. In it, he argues that Apple's acquisition of the Beats headphones business may be a lot smarter than a lot of analysts seem to think, despite the hefty price tag. He also gets into a comparison with Google, Facebook and their acquisition strategies and track record. Finally, he promises another piece looking at what else Apple should buy. That’s a great question for debate over the weekend – which businesses would you buy if you had Apple's cash?
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We mentioned last week some senior moves at SAP. If you want a much more detailed and insightful look at the changes, and what it might mean for SAP / Ariba’s cloud strategy, their users and customers, docheck out Jason Busch’s piece here。与此同时，其余的VMS（或然劳动软件）市场仍然吸收SAP购买的现场杯子 - 非官方但可靠的来源，现在说SAP约为12次收入。这是很多Dosh。还有很快就会出现这个市场。
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我们撰写了关于这里的下一级别购买薪水调查，显然是美国这些东西的季节，强大的ISM也发出了自己的调查。它的样本大小比NLP更大，更为焦点。我的同事皮埃尔米切尔花了很重要writes (very positively) about it here, and youcan get a copy here。One headline finding – overall salaries in procurement were down! That’s a bit of a shock – but as Pierre says:
“劳动力费用的成本遏制可能是来自喜怒无常分析的主要因素，Zandi Zandi的主要因素确实表明美国劳动力费用增长基本上缩小为零，这对于美国收入增长的宏观经济驱动程序非常重要，但途中的宏观经济驱动程序是对工资的影响“。
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Ben Khan是一个伦敦人，由时尚的音乐类型热，但不要让你失望。这是来自他的新ep，很棒，让人从王子到Bon Iver的人们没有听起来不那么喜欢。音乐您可以欣赏智力，但肯定会跳舞，而不是我推荐在这里的采购舞蹈爆发。
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