Business sense and success

Add comment April 21st, 2006 David Bush - Iasta

I just got back to the office from an offsite meeting where I serve as Chairman of the Business Advisory Council for a local college which has approximately 124,000 students across the State of Indiana. It was an interesting meeting and has been nice to see the progression over time of the formal maturity of the meetings and the material that is prepared as such. This time, I was handed a very nice custom 3-ring binder which covered past, current and future agenda items.

Although not truly about sourcing (at all), they are beefing up the supply chain and logistics curriculum to make graduates more prepared for the local work landscape and the program appears to be growing well. More importantly, myself and others were given the opportunity to explain what makes a good member of a company which I believe is basically distilled into a good attitude/work ethic, problem solving skills and strong ability in technology. I think these skills translate to all companies as fewer people are doing more work in a globalized economy. I was especially pleased to see that one of my ideas for a specific class in entrepreneurship was actually adopted and built into the course curriculum since last year.

On a different note, I will be leaving Sunday for SFO and will be speaking on e-Sourcing at the Ketera users conference in San Jose and dropping in on a few clients while I am out on the left coast. Hopefully, I will get a chance to meet the new CEO of Ketera and have some feedback from the conference and topics covered.

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