It’s been a big week for budget airline Ryanair – first it divided opinion by letting us text and make mobile calls mid-air and now it’s looking at charging customers who want to spend a penny during a flight.
It will be hard to ignore the fall out from the Royal Bank of Scotland’s record corporate loss of £24.1 billion today.
Steve Jobs must be one of the most famous and admired businessmen in the world.
It’s London Fashion Week and it got us here at SM thinking – could parading an array of different items in front of buyers catwalk-style make it easier for those in procurement?
The topic of stress at work has perhaps unsurprisingly risen up the agenda as a result of current economic woes.
New research by the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors suggests that more than a third of people embellish or lie on their CV.
Anybody who has ever put a piece of clothing in the washing machine, only to remember too late there was a £10 note in the pocket, should empathise with a story from the BBC website.
In a story from the latest issue, Jamie Hindhaugh, head of sourcing for production resources, logistics and operations at the BBC calls on buyers to be “bullish” to get senior management to approve new procurement strategies.
According to a web story yesterday, Rolls Royce will consider offering its suppliers financial support amid the toil of the financial downturn.
According to a story in the Financial Times, entrepreneurs are better at making risky or “hot” decisions then managers.
