I spent a couple of days at the annual National Retailer Federation (NRF) show this past week.  The focus of the show was on Demand Driven Retailing as outlined by AMR in the 6^th annual Sunrise Breakfast.  Bottom line, Wall Street cares about inventory turns.  And how are winning ‘demand-driven' retailers, like Urban Outfitters, Best Buy, Chico's, CVS, REI, and Sainsbury, getting 30% better inventory turns then the rest of the industry? 

Dude, where's my job?  Wondering if your job could get outsourced globally?  There is a new book out this month called Winning Strategies, Secrets to Clinching Multi Million-Dollar Deals.  It is written by Anirban Dutta and Hetzel Folden, global sourcing professionals whose big deals made headline news over the last decade, including companies like SanDisk, Raytheon, Motorola, Citigroup, British Telecom, and Qantas Airlines.   Winning Strategies is a guide book on the best practices to send domestic jobs overseas, but it is a significant read for more than just how to off-shore jobs.