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WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?  4/23/2008
Change the Rules to Change Behavior  4/17/2008
How to Manage Your Savings Performance For Maximum Results!  4/8/2008
How to Build “Perfect 10” Value Teams  4/2/2008 
5 Savings Strategies You Need to Know!  3/27/2008 
The Analytics of Value Analysis: A New Way To Win!  3/19/2008 
4 Reasons VA Programs Lose Their Momentum  3/13/2008 
Getting the Edge  3/6/2008 
Design for Supply Six Sigma™ is Just What the Doctor Ordered    2/26/2008 
Dynamic Contract Management Is A Lot More Than Just Bidding Your Purchase Service Contracts  2/19/2008 
What Tools Do You Have In Your Quality and Savings Toolbox?  2/12/2008 
To Be Truly Great at Supply Expense Management you Need to Break Down a Few More Walls!  2/6/2008 
Why You Need to Educate Your Docs, Before Your Sales Reps Do or You Lose!  1/30/2008 
Voice of the Customer  1/23/2008 
Lead, Teach and Coach!  1/16/2008 
Sorry No Price Break Possible  9/6/2007 
How Do You Deal with the Untouchables, the Incompliants and Sacred Cows?  8/22/2007 
Linking Up To Your Suppliers IDEA Supply Chain Will Grow Your Savings Stream  8/14/2007 
LESS IS MORE… Cut Cost, Cut Complexity, Cut Redundancy, Waste And Inefficiencies!  8/7/2007 
PRESTO…Instant Savings By Putting Your Suppliers On The Hot Seat!  8/1/2007 
What is Value Analysis 2.0?  7/25/2007 
Is Everyone On-Board Your Supply Chain Savings Train?  7/17/2007 
The Missing X Factor  7/10/2007 
You Can Observe A Lot Just By Watching!  7/5/2007 
Looking Outside Our Industry For New  And Better Ideas That Can Make Your Job Easier!  6/27/2007 
Beyond the Hype: What’s Really Important In Supply Chain Management  6/20/2007 
5 Long-Term Strategies To Grow Your Supply Chain Savings  6/12/2007 
The Secret to Your Savings Success  6/7/2007 
Supply Six Sigma™: What’s It All About?  5/30/2007 
Price Doesn’t Equate To Cost!  5/23/2007 
The Value Analysis Imperative  5/17/2007 
  Redefining Your Supply Chain Operations By Creating A Value-Based Model  5/9/2007 
Contracts Need To Be Benchmarked Too!  5/2/2007 
Stop Saving The Hard Way!  4/25/2007 
5 New Rules For Your Strategic Supply Chain Operational Planning  4/19/2007 
There Are “Big” Savings Beyond Your Core Products,  If You Know Where To Look For Them  4/11/2007 
Product Standardization and Evaluation  4/5/2007 
Six Steps To Keeping Your Value Analysis Pipeline Full!  3/28/2007 
The Top 10 Myths That Are Keeping You From Hitting Home Runs!  3/22/2007 
BEYOND BENCHMARKING: Forward To Activity-Based Measurement  3/14/2007 
Big, Robust and Super-Sized Utilization Savings Won’t Be Uncovered With Just Any Old Benchmarking Tool!  3/8/2007 
Supply Chain Pilot  2/28/2007 
Value Analysis Team Facilitation: A Lost Art  2/21/2007 
DASHBOARD MANIA: Is It All It’s Cracked Up To Be?  2/14/2007 
Perception Versus Reality!  2/7/2007 
5 Keys to Finding The Next Big Value Analysis Savings Projects  2/1/2007 
Managing Multiple Value Analysis Projects, Objectives And Deadlines!  1/25/2007 
Getting Everyone On The Bus For Supply Chain Management Success!  1/18/2007 
3 Powerful Project Management Tips For Supply Chain Professionals  1/11/2007 
To Achieve Superior Supply/Value Chain Performance You Need To “Think Differently” And “Do Differently”  12/20/2006 
Quickly Improve Your Savings Yield By Using Focus Groups  12/13/2006 
4 Powerful Steps To Prepare Your Organization For Value Analysis Success!  12/6/2006 
Measure Almost Everything And You Won’t Be Mislead, Misinformed or Mistaken When Making Those Big (and little) Savings Decisions!  11/15/2006 
What Healthcare Organizations Have In Common With Daimler Chrysler  11/7/2006 
3 Ways To Fully Engage Your Senior Management In Your Supply Value Analysis Initiatives  11/2/2006 
Do You Have A Winning Strategic Sourcing Strategy?  10/25/2006 
Are Your Focusing On Profitability Or Is It Just All About Savings?  10/19/2006 
Are You Leading Your Supply Chain Organization In the Right Direction?  10/11/2006 
Follow The Rules, Or Don’t Call It Value Analysis!  10/5/2006 
Let’s Talk About The Power Of Supply Chain Benchmarking!  9/26/2006 
Value Analysis Is About More Than Just Money!  9/21/2006 
Improve Your Search For New Savings And Quality Ideas 10-Fold!  9/13/2006 
Actionable Business Intelligence  9/7/2006 
Five Reasons Why Value Analysis Has Been Weak And Puny At Driving Out All Waste And Inefficiency In Healthcare Organizations’ Supply Chains  8/30/2006 
Create A Quantum Leap Forward In Your Supply Savings  8/23/2006 
5 Ways To Learn How To Recognize Waste And Inefficiency In Your Value Chain  8/16/2006 
SUPPLY SIX SIGMA: The Missing Link!  8/10/2006 
How To Motivate Your Complacent Management To Save Money While You're Still Making Money!  8/2/2006 
Fueling Your Savings Engine is One of the Most Important Aspects of Any Value Analysis Program  7/26/2006 
The era of STANDARDIZATION is ending!  7/18/2006 
4 Powerful Steps For Sustainable Supply Value Analysis Performance  7/13/2006 
Waste Not, Want Not….  7/6/2006 
How Incentives For Your Employees Will Mean More Savings For You And More Cash, Fun And Rewards For Them  6/29/2006 
How Do You Generate Huge Supply Savings Quickly And Efficiently  6/21/2006 
“It Wasn’t Raining When Noah Built His Ark”  6/14/2006 
Why Aren’t More Savings Coming Out Of Your Supply Chain Pipeline?  6/7/2006 
Does A Lot Of Activity And Effort Equate To Value Analysis Success For You?  6/3/2006 
How To Squeeze Even More Savings Out Of Your Supply Chain Expenses  5/24/2006 
How Do You Decide On What The “Best Values” Are For Your Healthcare Organization?  5/11/2006 
Do You Have A Money-Saving System To Keep Your Savings Machine Humming?  5/4/2006 
Where Can You Find Better Savings Ideas  4/28/2006 
Why Do You Need A Strategic Value Analysis™ Plan More Than Every Before?  4/21/2006 
Five Advantages Of Training Your Value Teams  4/5/2006 
(Podcast Included!) Why Incentive Programs Will Super-Charge Your Supply Value Analysis Program  3/30/2006 
(Podcast Included!) Are We Fooling Ourselves Into Believing We Are Really Saving All That We Can For Our Hospital?  3/23/2006 
(Podcast Included!) A Whole New Way To Look At Your Supply Savings  3/15/2006 
Ignoring 19% to 39% Of Your Supply Related Expenses That No GPO Is Focusing On?  3/9/2006 
Are You Winning The War On Your Utilization Savings?  3/2/2006 
Are You Sure Your Healthcare Organization Is Really Practicing Value Analysis?  2/23/2006 
The 3 Biggest Value Analysis Mistakes Most Hospital Make and How to Avoid Them  2/16/2006 
How To Become A Supply Savings Rainmaker  2/8/2006 
The New Way To Save Big!  2/2/2006 
Do You Get It? Value Analysis Is Not About Price, Standardization Or Capitation!  1/26/2006 
Reinventing Your Supply Value Analysis Program  1/17/2006 
5 Ways To Break Through Your Supply Savings Barriers  1/11/2006 
7 Most Important Things You Need To Do To Dramatically Reduce Your Supply Cost In 2006?  1/5/2006 
Are You Playing On The Edges Of Supply Savings Success  12/22/2005 
Why Are Supply Chain Professionals Doing All Of The Heavy Lifting?  12/16/2005 
Look In the Mirror  12/9/2005 
Is Gain Sharing the Next Evolution in Supply Chain Savings?  12/2/2005 
Indecision Holds Back More Supply Chain Savings Then Any Other Cause!  11/18/2005 
Just How Good Is Your Supply Chain Radar?  11/9/2005 
Cost Is Our Enemy; We Must Always Be On The Attack!  11/4/2005 
Who Says We Need To Exceed Our Customer’s Expectations?  10/27/2005 
The 10 Faces of Innovation That You Need to Adopt to Insure Your Value Team’s Success  10/21/2005 
An Eclectic Approach to Supply Chain Savings  10/14/2005 
Why a Spend Analysis is the First Step in the Development of Your Supply Value Analysis Plan  10/6/2005 
“Circle of Confluence” Strategy Includes Clinicians as Value-able Team Members  9/29/2005 
Is Your Supply Value Analysis Program “Wobbly”? And Is it "Sturdy" Enough?  9/15/2005 
Four key elements for a successful supply value analysis program  9/8/2005 
Where Is Your Hospital Or IDN On The Supply Chain Continuum Scale?  8/26/2005 
79% Of Your Supply Chain Savings Are In Your Utilization Cost  8/19/2005 
Three Keys To Keeping Your Value Teams Involved, Motivated And Focused On Their Tasks  8/11/2005 
Everyone Is Looking For That “Magic Bullet” To Drive Out All Waste and Inefficiency  8/5/2005 
Expand Your Management Charter to Enlarge Your Influence, Authority And Savings  7/29/2005 
5 Reasons Why Purchase Services Aren’t Top Of The Mind With Supply Chain Professionals  7/21/2005 
Why Technology Value Teams Are The Next Big Thing In Raising Your Savings Performance  7/15/2005 
3.5 Reasons Why You Need Multiple Savings Streams To Just Keep Running In Place  7/7/2005 
How To Create An Automatic Supply Chain Savings Machine  6/29/2005 
The #1 Reason Why Healthcare Organizations Aren’t Wringing The Towel Dry  6/24/2005 
7 Reasons Why “Winging It” Won’t Bring About Sustainable Supply Chain Savings  6/17/2005 
Self Discovery of Powerful Best Practices  6/10/2005 
Why Change Management Is A Process, Not A One-Time Event  5/25/2005 
Is Gain-Sharing With Your Physicians The Answer To Reducing Your Supply Costs?  5/20/2005 
Gaining Senior Management Support for Supply Initiatives  5/12/2005 
The Last Bastion Of Supply Chain Performance  5/6/2005 
Maintain A Healthy Bottom Line  4/28/2005 
Increase Your Savings Yield!  4/21/2005 
Sweat The Small Stuff If You Want To Create A Culture Of Exceptional Savings Performance!  4/8/2005 
Analysis Is Essential   Before Launching Or Re-Launching Your Supply Value Analysis Program  4/1/2005 
A New Way Of Thinking About The Products, Services and Technologies You Purchase  3/18/2005 
Is Your Annual Inventory Holding Cost Greater Than Your Hospital’s Profit Margin?  3/11/2005 
Why Your Cost Reduction Initiatives Must Be A Never Ending Battle?  2/25/2005 
How To Eradicate, Eliminate Or At Least Cancel Out The Affects Of The Culture of “No”!  2/15/2005 
How To Persuade Your Clinicians That Change Is As Necessary As Breathing!  2/4/2005 
Value Analysis Practitioners™ Are Now Commanding High Paying Salaries  1/28/2005 
otta Get Into The Game Of Value Analysis If You Are Looking For Long Term Sustainable Savings  1/21/2005 
8 Ways To Jump Start Your Value Analysis Savings  1/13/2005 
Scientific Evaluation Selection System  1/7/2005 
Are You Looking For Breakthrough Innovations  12/17/2004 
Imperative For Your Value Teams To Self-Assess Their Performance To Raise The Bar  12/3/2004 
How To Move From “Just Good Enough” To High Performance Value Teams  11/23/2004 
How Data Driven Logic Can Make Cost Reductions Happen  11/12/2004 
Encouraging Your Clinicians to Want to Save Money  11/3/2004 
Outsiders Will Dramatically Improve Your Team’s Performance  10/22/2004 
Produce Double Digit Savings!  10/15/2004 
Untouched Supply Chain Savings  10/10/2004 
Collaborating With Your Clinicians  9/30/2004 
Produce Double Digit Savings  9/16/2004 
3 Big Leaps for Breakthrough Value Analysis Savings  9/10/2004 
If You Don’t Have A Lot Of Time For Value Analysis, Then Use The Time You Have Wisely  9/3/2004 
3 Reasons Why Outsourcing Your Supply Chain Savings Initiatives is Dangerous  8/20/2004 
Why There Are No Quick Fixes  8/13/2004 
How to Overcome Resistance to Change  8/6/2004 
Peak Supply Chain Performance  7/30/2004 
3 Required Attributes for Value Analysis Success  7/23/2004 
How To Energize Your Supply Chain Performance Goal Setting  7/16/2004 
How to Find Innovative Ways To Save Big Bucks  7/8/2004 
3 Winning Strategies To Squeeze Out More Capital Dollars