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Humourless links for January 10, 2010

by Michael Keizer on January 10, 2010

  • An old post by Jeff Ashcroft at the Supply Chain Network talks about applying supply chain management principles to human resource management. I guess it is the HR equivalent of my application of the five rights of logistics to information management. (H/T to Jurgen Hulst.)
  • IRC’s Anna Husarska writes about the significance of the chukudu, the wooden ‘bike’ that you can see everywhere in Goma.

[Image: Liquid Links by Desirae; some rights reserved.]

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