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How organizations waste billions through failures, frauds and f*ck-ups

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Bad Buying Wins Prestigious Award en Paris!

It is now just over a year since Bad Buying was published and it has sold literally millions thousands of copies all over the world.  Thanks to everyone who has bought the book and all who have commented on and reviewed it on Amazon and elsewhere…
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Twelve Tips for Presenting to a Procurement Audience

If you are speaking to a procurement conference audience in a sales / marketing capacity, you need to seize the opportunity - here are some tips to help.
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Huge Ship, Tiny Error, Major Problem

Picture: LPhot Alex Ceolin, UK MOD© Crown copyright 2019 You may know the expression “don’t spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar*”, but we have a case now where the ship most certainly has been spoiled – or at least put out…
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About Bad Buying

With this Bad Buying website we aim to shine a fearless spotlight on the things that go wrong with corporate buying and procurement – failures, frauds and f**k-ups, as I like to say. That does also mean highlighting and celebrating some of the positive ways in which organisations can avoid Bad Buying, as well as sticking the boot in when criticism is deserved. Fraud and corruption are also prevalent in the world of buying, and too often public and private sector bodies globally get away with some truly awful buying processes, practices and decisions that rarely get exposed and analysed. We aim to address that, and as any entrepreneur will tell you, we learn more from our mistakes than our successes. So we hope Bad Buying can help in that way too!

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