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Monday, July 12, 2010

BP Oil Spill: The Red Adair of relief well drilling says 'no doubt about successful outcome'



Great story from the Telegraph of London - if only we could have as much confidence in BP as we should have in this gentleman, John Wright, whom the headline writer christens as "the Red Adair of relief well-drilling" (Wikipedia him, kiddos and you'll see why!) - read:

BP oil spill: the Red Adair of relief well drilling says 'no doubt about successful outcome' - Telegraph


Great line for all in any field of work:
"After 40 successes, I have come to believe it is a lot like golf; the more you practice, the luckier you get!" -----John Wright

Let's all hope he hits #41, too!

David

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Enter Reverse Auctions: Telework is vital to government operations, and you need to buy more portable IT for doing so



Interesting story from Government Executive magazine, as they held a forum with five top officials at federal agencies on the subject of remote work (and the security, retention, productivity, etc.) involved. Read it here:

Telework is vital to government operations, chiefs say (7/8/10) -- GovExec.com

A nugget of info here that all should pay attention to in regards to e-procurement and reverse auctions. Namely, as more telework is allowed and encouraged, there will need to be more IT equipment bought to facilitate this trend. So, more laptops, smart phones, data plans, etc., all of which are perfectly suited for reverse auctioning to save precious taxpayer dollars! That was the message from Hugh Hurwitz, the Department of Education's top procurement official. He commented that in the shift to telework at his prior position with the FDA (Food and Drug Administration):

"We actually did a reverse auction and got a tremendous price on laptops. It was cheaper to buy them that way than it had been to buy the individual desktops we'd been buying. In the end, it saves the agency a lot of money."

Game, set, match for reverse auctioning! A "win-win" for the agency, for the employees, and most of all, for the taxpayer!

Got a similar story to share - contact us here at the Reverse Auction Research Center (http://reverseauctionresearch.blogspot.com/) to tell your success story saving money and time through using reverse auctions for procurement.

David




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Eutilia: New European Site for B2B e-Commerce Launches a Reverse Auction Platform for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses



Another announcement of a new B2B e-commerce site. This one is EUTILIA N.V., based in The Netherlands. You can read about their business concept here:

Eutilia N.V. Launches a Trading Portal for European SMEs

Jean-Philippe Massin, CEO of  EUTILIA N.V., commented that: "The European SME market is a large fragmented market of 25 million companies not yet exposed to online tools and with our assistance can dramatically and competitively increase their revenues. We are aiming at being their preferred online partner to boost their business.” They certainly appear to have a unique approach in an underserved market. We'll follow their progress here at the Reverse Auction Research Center: http://reverseauctionresearch.blogspot.com/.

Good luck to Jean-Philippe and everyone at Eutilia - and sorry about the World Cup finals loss!

David


From the Reverse Auction Research Center: http://reverseauctionresearch.blogspot.com/


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Everybody’s Business - Online, We Pay With Our Time Spent Searching

Comedian Louis C.K. performs for servicemember...Image via Wikipedia
Here's a great commentary from the New York Times on the way we live today - and yes, spend our time online - read:

Everybody’s Business - Online, We Pay With Our Time Spent Searching - NYTimes.com

Yeah, all those split seconds that Google takes to search the whole Internet to bring me just what I want when I want it in order of relevance - that's tedious, eh? It reminded me of a classic interview with comedian Louis CK, on how "Everything's amazing, but nobody's happy" - watch:


Louis C.K. talks on Conan O'brien about technology from Nathan Lunde-Berry on Vimeo.

So, whadya think - Post your comments on the blog site.

David
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