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Avoiding growing pains

July 23, 2012

While not all mid-sized organisations will have a dedicated procurement function or a c-level purchasing professional, the transition to a large enterprise is likely to be the time when this becomes the case for many. Where procurement may have once been a subset of finance it will be a separately directed and managed team. (more…)

Taking the middle path

July 9, 2012

Rough economic waters can have a much more dramatic impact on smaller ships than supertankers and so mid-sized organisations have to master manoeuvrability and change to keep an even keel through some of the most challenging periods in a company’s development. (more…)

Medium-sized firms and the art of control

July 3, 2012

The Future Champions report, recently published by the CBI, illustrates just how important the UK’s mid-sized organisations are to the overall economy – delivering more than a quarter of all UK revenues and providing one-in-five British jobs. (more…)