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		<title><![CDATA[Five Home Renovations That Pay Off]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you're staying in your house because you love the place or because the housing meltdown left you no other choice, this is a great time to consider a home renovation. For the first time in years, contractors actually need your business, and are willing to deal. Here are the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[5 Tips for Directing Outside Contractors]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=3396]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Steven DeMaio once directed contractors, now he is one. Both perspectives are on display in his valuable tip sheet on How to Give Feedback to Contractors.    For example, when giving positive feedback, don't stop at "Great job," DeMaio says.  "Telling the contractor precisely why you found...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:51:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Contractor Nightmares (and How to Avoid Them)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2403-13059_23-332322.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[No one foresees workplace nightmares. But when you hire contract workers, they're even more likely to occur.                      The Disappearing Contractor    	  	  Barring, say,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Maximum Work Flow, Minimal Head Count]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2403-13059_23-332323.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[How can you do more work with fewer people? It's easy. The recession has created a huge pool of eager part-time workers.       Define the Skill Set    GOAL: ESTABLISH PARAMETERS AND CREATE A PROFILE OF  YOUR IDEAL CANDIDATE.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Payment Plans for Contractors and Consultants]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How you compensate a part-time Web designer differs from how you'd pay a management consultant. Here's a guide for both.                              ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Contractors to the Rescue]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2436-13059_23-332375.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it's a leap of faith. But when head count is impossible to get, you sometimes have to let your fate fall into the hands of a part-time team. Here's how to make sure they don't drop the net.In an economy full of problems, let's assume you have a high-class...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Internal British Report Recommends Privatizing Acquisition Workforce]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/government/10002765/internal-british-report-recommends-privatizing-acquisition-workforce/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The British Government of Gordon Brown is facing serious issues when it comes to defense spending.  The recession has greatly affected tax revenue and required expansion of social spending to counter the effects.  This has led to more borrowing like in the United States.  This shortage of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:56:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Contractors and the Obama Administration's Defense Budget]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/government/10001190/contractors-and-the-obama-administrations-defense-budget/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several years Congress has initiated a variety of reforms to both contracting and the acquisition process for Major Defense Acquisition Programs MDAP.  While the two are not directly related they do go hand-in-hand.  Some of the law and regulatory changes are due to specific program...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:48:53 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Deceptively Simple Web & Independent Contractors]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1171717]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The wealth of information on the Web just laying just about anything at our feet - er fingertips - is deceptively simple. Take, for instance, hiring independent contractors to outsource a process in your business or help with special projects in your department. Opened up by the Web, we now...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Treasury Department to Pay Significant Costs to Manage Financial Bailout]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/government/1000213/treasury-department-to-pay-significant-costs-to-manage-financial-bailout/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[We had written in the past about the U.S. Treasury Department having to hire contractors to help manage the TARP financial bailout passed by Congress last year.  Now The Wall Street Journal reports on the costs incurred to do this.  The Department predicts that by the end of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:00:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Minefinders Corp. Ltd. Wall Street Analyst Forum Transcript]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2462-13071_23-228859.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionUnidentified Audience Member Question Inaudible Mark Bailey There were several, I would say the weakest area in the construction was the contractors. I wouldn&#39;t say we got the 18 from our various engineering firms that we hired and contractors. We have numerous contractors. There are 600 employees and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:05:10 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Makes A Good Outsourcing Contract]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=953509]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[You made a deal with someone to complete a project for you. When you were talking, the requirements of the job were clear and the contractor said he understands fully what you wanted from him. However, after several weeks into the project, the kinds of job that the contractor gives...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Manage Independent Contractors]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2403-13056_23-180223.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Federal Express is just the latest company to face big IRS fines for mishandling contractors. Here's how to manage ICs the right way.    	  		  			Decide Whether You Need One  			  				Goal:   				Learn what contractors can do for you &#8212; and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Becoming A Practical Buyer: Knowing The Essentials When Buying Used Construction Equipment]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=382560]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In these days, being practical is a must. This is the reason why most of the independent contractors prefer to rent construction equipment instead of buying their own. Most of the contractors tend to believe that by following this practice they are already saving themselves a good amount of sum....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contractor prequalification is essential in most construction projects, and the process has been performed by many different methods in practice. Data Envelopment Analysis DEA had been recognized as a useful technique to prequalify contractors by assigning relative efficiency scores. Data envelopment analysis, however, usually requires a large amount of data...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agile contractors will embrace a key lesson from the commercial world: Rapid product development is significantly enhanced by proximity to the customer. With Combatant Commanders playing a growing role in providing real-time feedback that informs product requirements, those Aerospace & Defense (A&D) companies that can get closest to forward-deployed customers...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sharing Property Rights With Contractors In Outsourced New Product Development Relationships]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research, development, and engineering tasks are central to new product development, yet are increasingly contracted to outside parties. Structuring the governance of outsourced development arrangements is complex since, in addition to transaction specific investments and incomplete contracts, the tasks involved are creative in nature and sensitive to outside control, and...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been written on process models, project management or tool support to increase the return on investment in software through higher quality of the development process and the resulting software or system. Yet, we lack understanding in the underlying economic principles; e.g., an external firm paid to develop software...]]></description>
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