I think it’s telling that this year’s overall winner in the CIPS Supply Management Awards was also the champion in the corporate responsibility category.
There has been a great deal of conjecture about public spending in the UK over the past week.
For a long time the talk in the UK public sector has been about how the government can use its £175 billion more effectively. And one method of doing this is by pooling money, working together and eliminating duplication.
Call me a bitter old cynic but I am not impressed with the Tories’ latest attempt to lure us on board their money-saving dreamboat. They announced on Wednesday that if they were in government, they would publish details of all government purchases over £25,000. This improved level of transparency, they say, would lead to savings. [...]
We have uploaded the interviews recorded at last night’s CIPS Supply Management Awards 2009 ceremony in London.
I enjoy reading the “Alex” business cartoon in The Daily Telegraph each day, so I was pleased to see one covering concerns employees might have about cost-cutting.
This summer CIPS CEO David Noble told Supply Management he plans to ‘refocus’ the institute. Noble, the first former practitioner to head the institute since 1966, said he wanted CIPS to be the “first port of call” for CPOs, and later CEOs, in the private and public sector, and would provide propositions to “tackle their [...]
Most of us are keen to make a good first impression when going for a job interview, but some people appear to be taking this to the extreme.
In this weekend’s papers the UK’s favourite crusading cook Jamie Oliver made an unknowing nod to procurement.
I’ve often wondered where I would go if I was in the market for thousands of yellow rubber ducks. I certainly wouldn’t have expected to find inspiration watching television.
