Good Stakeholder Engagement Leads to Successful Procurement
Businesses around the world are forced to make key decisions regarding all manner of topics on an everyday basis.
Hybrid working and the return to the office
So, as a business leader which of these statements are you closer to? “To be honest before COVID we never had people working from home unless they were sick or snowed in. Call me old fashioned but I don’t agree with it. I think people need to get out of bed in the morning and go to a place of work and
Procurement Outsourcing, why?
Leading organizations have already outsourced a major chunk of IT services and have tested and proved that outsourcing and off-shoring works. Now organizations are clearly focusing on outsourcing their business processes to a specialist as they feel that most transactional activities done today are non core in nature.
A direct focus on indirect spend
If your organisation is not managing your indirect spend, then you are missing out on a significant source of cost savings.
Creating Value by Improving EBITDA
Investors look for companies that have “value”, but what does that mean? Value comes in many forms.
How Private Equity Firms Create Value
Companies are in business to create value for their shareholders, a pursuit that occupies countless hours in boardrooms and executive suites around the world.
Recruitment Agency Remuneration
Love them or hate them recruitment agencies can be of use. Commercially, agencies are often remunerated based on the following:
Change or Transformation?
“Why Transformation Efforts Fail” was the title of John Kotter’s classic article written 10 years ago.
The GDPR Minefield
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will apply from 25 May 2018, when it supersedes the UK Data Protection Act 1998.
Procurement 2018- Agility and Analytics
Hackett’s 2017 Procurement Key Issues Study showed that enhancing agility is a key development area for organizations.
Process Automation - Robotics
Here we go, Pete’s about to harp on about outsourcing and robotics again. Well folks, Im sorry but its a hot topic at the moment that I cannot leave alone.
The World Of Energy Buying
For this current blog issue we turn our focus to the exciting world of energy procurement. Often an area overlooked by many organisations due to the complexities associated.
The Future of Outsourcing – Robotic Process Automation
There has been a lot of debate about how robotic process automation software and its ability to automate business processes will – or will not – impact business process outsourcing (BPO) providers.