The International Association of Investigation Units announced yesterday that Ed Welch, an SIU investigator for State Farm Insurance, was named its 2007 Investigator of the Year for a probe that saved

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Customer relationship management technology took the industry by storm in the early 2000s, but years later it proved to be a flop. Was it a hoax, another meaningless acronym, or simply a