(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Many organizations develop strategic plans that gather dust on bookshelves.

(APQC: Houston, TX) -- APQC, the knowledge management and business research organization, has released the results of its latest collaborative benchmarking study,

(Gartner: Stamford, CT) -- Gartner Inc. has released the findings from its eighth annual Supply Chain Top 25. The goal of the initiative is to raise awareness of the supply-chain discipline and how it affects the business.

(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon AB, a global provider of design, measurement, and visualization technologies, has acquired all shares in the Norwegian company My Virtual Reality Software AS (myVR).

(New River Kinematics: Williamsburg, VA) -- New River Kinematics has released SA 2012.03.13, engineering software with surface colorization and offset surfaces feature.

(NSI: Stuttgart/Germany) -- The newly developed X25 computed tomography system from North Star Imaging, designer and manufacturer of digital X-ray equipment and nondestructive testing systems, is a compact system designed for submicron resolution imaging and ultrahigh-accuracy scanning.

Your clients are your No. 1 priority, right? So how are you managing their information and your relationship with them? Do you have all their information stuffed in a shoebox, or do you have an effective contact relationship management (CRM) system?

Some of us are natural-born planners. We plan out every moment of our lives in detail, from what we will be doing on the weekend to how many children we want and what their names will be, to how our career will progress—in detail.

As our product and service value chains expand globally, OEMs in various industries are outsourcing more of their products and services instead of keeping them in house.