I attended a regular local gathering of a LinkedIn group a few nights ago. A couple of conversations made me reflect on how often we just put up with the unacceptable.
The real challenge for the profession is reaching out to those outside – colleagues in other departments and the people you buy from. The danger of too much jargon is that they stop listening as soon as you start talking.
In his speech to CIPS Conference delegates in London last week, Michael Portillo said an increasing number of local authorities will consider outsourcing more services in response to the government’s bid to make deep public sector cuts.
What happens if you threaten to punish an outsourced supplier? Does its performance improve or get worse?
When the TUC’s annual conference opened in Manchester a couple of weeks ago, the torrent of cliché-ridden and hackneyed media coverage was even worse than usual.
You probably weren’t looking for an example of subcontracting going wrong, but just in case, here’s one that descended into drama and crisis.
I take a non-political stance here and on my own blog. I take the line that questioning the competence and methodology of government policy delivery in the context of procurement is legitimate: challenging policy itself is not. So please don’t interpret these comments in any other way.
In 2006, I decided to get out of corporate life and develop a “portfolio career”. Now I am a sustainability adviser, an official “watchdog”, a small business owner, trustee of two charities and a few other things too trivial to mention. Some of these roles are well paid, some aren’t paid at all. The recession [...]
Today is the CIPS annual conference and a great chance for networking. But meeting new people at the breaks can be a fraught business, so here are some tips for meeting people and getting rid of them.
This week is ‘work-wise week’ in the UK. Here’s the line up: Monday was ‘smarter travel day’. This isn’t about wearing your best suit for the commute, but about changing the time at which you start your journey
