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CIPS wants to know your views on how to improve the monthly Upd@te newsletter. All members receive this email, but what do you find useful and what would you like to see included? (more…)
The CIPS 80:20 Vision paper has highlighted several ways the profession can move confidently forward. (more…)
Businesses used to be staffed by people called… people. Personnel managers worried about the personnel. Then came ‘human resources’ managers, with their amazing dictionary of jargon and arid phrases. And finally human beings ascended to the ultimate level. They became ‘talent’.
Who would top your list of the world’s most reputable companies? Whose products and services would you recommend to your fellow procurement professionals? And are you basing that on an objective assessment of the quality of their products or on what their name means to you – whether that’s their green credentials, technical innovation or customer service? (more…)
After separate assessments, followed up with robust and passionate discussions at last week’s judging day, the shortlist for nine team and two individual categories for this year’s CIPS Supply Management Awards was announced today. Link to two stories. (more…)
This issue marks the 80th anniversary of CIPS. It charts the history of the institute from the point at which seven people around a table decided it was a good idea to establish a British association, to the 66,000 members it has today in 150 countries. (more…)
The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
(Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait) are evolving and the procurement profession is doing so with them. (more…)
When people ask
you what you do for a living, do you find it easy to explain procurement and supply in such a way that they immediately ‘get it’? If not, one of the things you could do is suggest they watch a bit more TV. There are a couple of popular programmes that can help non-procurement people understand what we do. (more…)
All over the world,
procurement faces real challenges to deliver value for the public purse. Government debt, budget cuts and, in some parts of the globe, immature or corrupt practices make the task a difficult one. There are, however, beacons of good practice where excellent results are being achieved without compromising best practice principles. If we can ‘bottle’ best practice and share it widely with public procurement communities, we can start to have an impact on standards. (more…)
Looking forward to 2012, I am well aware that our continued level of success will only be sustained if CIPS continues to deliver and be supported by our members. We have to remain relevant to our audiences and all those who use our services and come to us for knowledge and guidance. That’s why the results of our recent customer satisfaction survey are so important, the content of which has been instrumental in the launch of new products and services. (more…)
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