Need a little inspiration to get you through the day? Take a look at a few of the 'Top Innovation Articles of 2011' from Innovation Excellence. Many of the references are oriented toward general business, but have broad application to all professions, even ours!  

Although we're well into 2012, we're still encountering some great 'best of', 'predictions' and 'trends' lists. Steve Keifer from GXS gives us his predictions for 2012 on businesscomputingworld.co.uk. Although EDI isn't mentioned specifically, it's embedded in several of his most important points.

In the following article by Jason Busch on the Spend Matters site, a couple software company names that are pretty familiar in the purchasing world are getting together. These companies provide much of the same functionality as EDI, albeit with XML-based processes.

Here's a short article with New Year's resolutions from Michael Friedenberg, the CEO of a group that publishes several popular IT-oriented magazines.  What are some of your key resolutions for this year?