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Beyond Command and Control – a Better Way of Contracting for Complex Services?
John Seddon is a highly original and interesting thinker, whose work over the years has often gone against the grain of conventional ideas about business […]
The first principle of procurement – get your specification right!
All spending organisations, whether private, public, tertiary, charity, are experiencing a period of considerable economic and political uncertainty - that we all know too well. […]
In Case You Missed It … Procurement and Supply Market Roundup
We can't comment on every press release that hits our desks, but here are a few market news stories this week that we thought we […]
Why Procurement Needs To See Marketing as Another String to Its Bow
George Smart, group business development director at APS Group, talks about how Procurement can strengthen its relationship with Marketing – and why that’s important. Procurement […]
A Procurement Compendium – New Book Launches Today
Our good friend and, until this year, MD of Spend Matters Europe, Peter Smith, needs no introduction to our regular readers. For those of you […]
Public Spend Forum – Public Procurement Highlights from this Week
Public Spend Forum (PSF) is a public sector procurement global community and market intelligence platform dedicated to improving public procurement and the public sector market. […]
Tenuous Link to World Cup Procurement Post – How to Score Tenders
OK, we apologise, we have re-scheduled a couple of this week’s articles so we can feature something about the World Cup. Well, if we can’t […]
Public Spend Forum Europe – Public Procurement Highlights from This Week
Public Spend Forum is dedicated to public sector procurement and aims to be a global community and knowledge network for improving public procurement and the public sector […]
Procurement Industry Events Need to Change with the Times
Having just completed a busy procurement conference season this Autumn, we were intrigued by this guest article from Bastiaan van Drempt of Coact Consulting. Coact Consulting […]
Foundations for Best Practice Procurement with Wax Digital Webinar
As organisations grow and develop, they go through different stages in their procurement journey. To begin with, the owner of the business probably does all […]
LLP Conference – Some Positive Signs for NHS Procurement
Last Friday there was a real buzz around the NHS London Procurement Partnership conference which went by the snappy title "Savings and improvement for the […]