Who: Param Singh, vice president of clinical trial management solutions, BioPharm Systems

Adrian Hampshire, managing director, EMEA, BioPharm Systems

Paul Dobrowolskyj, senior consultant, Oracle Health Sciences

What: Webinar: "Business and Operational Risks in Clinical and Safety: Applying Appropriate Technology and Approaches to Mitigate Risk"

All business processes are subject to some level of risk. Key to the long term viability of any company is the critical need to identify the risks, quantify them, minimize them, and have a clear plan for dealing with any residual risks.

Organizations try to mitigate risks by implementing systems that support the company's business processes. Commercial software systems that are available from vendors such as Oracle include many capabilities which, if implemented properly, greatly reduce the risks in the business process.

The implementation of complex systems is, in itself, a risky process. Organizations like BioPharm Systems have been able to use their wide range of experience to develop pre-configured and pre-validated solutions that help reduce the risks during the implementation of a clinical trial management system (CTMS) and a safety system.

This one and a half-hour webinar will provide an overview of business risks related to clinical and safety systems and will illustrate how the risks inherent in implementing complex CTMS and safety systems can be significantly reduced.

When: Thursday, November 17, 2011 @:

7:00 a.m. US Pacific time
8:00 a.m. US Mountain time
9:00 a.m. US Central time
10:00 a.m. US Eastern time
15:00 UK time
16:00 Central European time

Webinar Information: To register for this complimentary webinar, go to: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/bf2hph6dutcu

NelsonHall and buyingTeam recently ran a study involving 120 CPOs and CFOs from FTSE 100 organisations across Europe and the US to better understand procurement’s changing role within business today and tomorrow.

Focusing on indirect (or non-core / GNFR) procurement, the in-depth study identified a number of challenges and opportunities for global businesses in realising maximum benefits from indirect expenditure.

Nearly 60% of Board level executives, perceived indirect procurement's importance as moderate to low (or putting it another way, place little importance on the value that indirect procurement can deliver back to the business).

However, experience has shown that better managed indirect expenditure can deliver significant profit improvements, reduce the levels of risk to which organisations are exposed, and positively influence buying behaviours across the organisation.

So why isn’t indirect procurement higher up senior executives agenda and how can organisations overcome these perceptual challenges?

During the 60 minute discussion you will hear:
- Current perceptions of the indirect procurement function and its desired future role within the organization
- The challenges currently faced by the indirect procurement function
- The business value that can be derived through indirect procurement
- The role of procurement outsourcing in enabling the indirect procurement function to take on a business partner role within the organisation.

New Year’s Resolution – Start the year right

Attend this great webinar on 1/13/2010 11am pacific http://www.generationomarketing.com/eSignature.html

To learn how you could:
• Get more contracts signed
• Solve compliance issues
• Have an audit trail
• Conduct green business

Who would benefit by attending? Anyone who would like to:

• Reduce cost
• Reduce the time spent on internal compliance, payroll, legal documents, T&Es, or tax forms
• Reduce the time spent on vendor documents, invoices, purchase orders, records management, or storage
• Reduce sales cycles, get paid faster, or increase revenue
• Speed up change control or get approvals faster

October 1 - Thursday
The American Attribution Index:
Using Advertising Attribution Management to Improve Media Mix Allocation
Adam Goldberg and Purush Papatla, speakers

In this webcast, we'll learn more about the newly developed American Attribution Index, and how advertisers can use this new index to improve the effectiveness of their media mix allocation.

There are three version of the American Attribution Index: the Aggregate Index, representing average attribution indices across all participating companies and all of their respective industries; Vertical Industry Indices, which represent an industry-specific attribution index across all participating companies in that respective industry; and Company-Specific Indices, developed for a specific company.

The introduction of these indices will allow marketers to gain further insight into advertising ROI, and help marketers more profitably allocate advertising budgets across available online options.

Register directly at http://bit.ly/2OeCKk or get more details at http://searchmarketingnow.com

According to research, 70-75% of new franchisors fail over a 10 year period. Do you know the key factors that lead to a franchise succeeding or failing? Do you know the impact of strong communications and accountability on franchisee buy-in and therefore on franchise growth?

Join this webinar to:

Learn the most important factors in franchise success or failure
Explore key societal trends that will affect franchising in the next 12 months
Get concrete solutions to improve communications and accountability with your franchisees
Discuss best practices around effective communications in the franchise marketplace and how these can be implemented in the areas of social media, franchisee communications, and operations management.
Attendees will leave with concrete tips they can implement as well as an understanding of how they can strengthen their franchise operations and a renewed understanding of the critical importance of good communication in franchise development.

Bar coding proves greater than the sum of the parts for an industrial parts supplier with 400,000 SKUs.

Learn how one warehouse maintained workflow during a major upgrade and minimized impact on current operations.

Highlights include:

* Teaching a single scanner to read bar codes with extreme variability in contrast
* Installing less equipment which then requires fewer spares and less service
* Working around the existing warehouse layout
* Minimizing the need to interface with a slow mainframe

While consumers may think the holiday shopping season starts after Thanksgiving, savvy online marketers know that now's the time to get ready. Christmas in July? Hardly, but in this economy, it's crucial to understand just what steps you need to take six months out.

This webcast will give an overview of the current state of online retail -- plus predictions for the 2009 holiday shopping season. Find out what to expect -- and how to succeed by planning ahead.

In this webcast we'll learn:

*Current forecasts for the 2009 holiday shopping season
*Which retail categories performed better than others
*Specific tips and tactics for retail success -- from understanding customer needs to managing landing pages
*Planning for the holidays - timelines/milestones for the next six months.

Eli Goodman, Search Evangelist at comScore, will give an overview of the state of online retail -- its current strengths and weaknesses; how consumer spending -- and searching -- have changed year over year; and, what the experts are predicting for 2009 online holiday retail.

Matt Miller, Director, Vertical Solutions at Performics, will offer specific tips and timelines that retailers can follow in the months building up to the holidays. Find out, step-by-step, what you can do now to be most competitive during the 2009 holiday shopping season.

Register now - it's free! http://bit.ly/hLjWi

The main goal of this seminar is to present the Spanish Aerospace industry and the investment opportunities that it offers for foreign companies. Thus, we will highlight the main drivers that have allowed the development of the industry in Spain and the plans that the Spanish administrations have created to foster the sector.

Another important aspect of the seminar will be the international aerospace programs in which Spain takes part, mainly those developed by EADS and Airbus. Thus, a part of the presentation will be devoted to the facilities and activities of this group in Spain.

We will also highlight the following business opportunities detected in the Spanish aeronautics industry:

- Avionics
- ATM systems
- Aerostructures and composites
- Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul centers
- Training Centers
- Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles for civil uses

Regarding the space industry, we will get to know about the presence in Spain of the company Thales Alenia Space, a leading European supplier of space components and systems that has been working in Spain over 20 years.

How did online retailers fare in the holiday selling season of 2008? The news may not be as glum as you think.

Even in today’s economy, savvy online retailers can maximize their returns, whether through investment in paid search, shopping engines or other online marketing strategies.

This webcast looks at online retail lessons learned during the 2008 holiday shopping season, and how to apply those learnings to your 2009 strategy.

We’ll get a postmortem from comScore about just how retail markets did in the current economic climate. Which segments performed better than others - and why?

We’ll also get a report from the trenches: Vintage Tub and Bath, a Top-500 Internet Retailer, will share some of its online marketing tactics - from pushing product reviews, to fine tuning paid search and effectively using shopping comparison engines.

Chris Wine of Marin Software will give some concrete tips on how to factor seasonal and economic fluctuations into your online marketing campaign using Marin Search Marketer.

Attend this webcast and learn:

* How 2008 online retail sales compared to 2007
* Which SEM tactics were successful - and which weren’t
* How to improve your 2009 retail PPC strategy with Marin Software’s application
* When to cut back - or ramp up - your marketing budget
* How to take advantage of day of week and seasonality data

…and more