
Dr Albert Sanchez-Graells is a procurement lawyer and academic at Bristol University (and has just been promoted to Reader – well deserved and congratulations to […]
Dr Albert Sanchez-Graells is a procurement lawyer and academic at Bristol University (and has just been promoted to Reader – well deserved and congratulations to […]
Following his guest article here on the attitudinal changes he is seeing amongst his students, and another excellent article about Kraljic here, we caught up […]
We're delighted to feature this excellent and thought-provoking guest post from Dr Chris Lonsdale, who leads the Procurement and Operations Management Group at Birmingham University. […]
Here is the another taster from a new post on Public Spend Matters Europe, our sister site dedicated to public procurement issues. Institute of Competition […]
If you spend much of your life listening to people talking about procurement, or reading numerous articles, papers and so on, it can all get […]
We haven't reported on our readers' comments for a while -- there have been so many interesting procurement news items, CEO/CPO announcements, mergers, opinions, research […]
If I had to name the half a dozen most influential "academic" / thought leadership type individuals during my procurement career, one of them without […]
We featured here the launch of Why Public Procurement is Central to the UK’s Economic Performance.. And How to Transform It, the recent report from […]
Extreme negotiations - conjures up some great images. Getting yourself set free to escape a psychopathic pyromaniac who has you tied up in a basement? […]
CIPS and Cranfield University have announced a new programme - the Executive Procurement Network. This replaces the old CIPS Leaders' Network, which itself came out […]
I've been been talking to an experienced and well respected procurement academic over the last couple of weeks about a piece of research he's doing […]
When I first came into procurement, some 25 years ago, there was little academic presence in the profession. Then (and I apologise, this is a […]