Beware the Fake CFO!
I have mixed feelings about Ove Arup. One the one hand, they are an engineering company with a strong track record, great achievements, and one of my best friends worked […]
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I have mixed feelings about Ove Arup. One the one hand, they are an engineering company with a strong track record, great achievements, and one of my best friends worked […]
The election of Donald Trump in the US was one of the biggest global news stories of 2024, but our election back in July was significant for the UK, as […]
When I lecture on Bad Buying, as I do at the Skema business school in Lille, I ask the students to think about what sort of procurement related fraud or […]
In the legendary Philip Green review of 2010, the new UK Prime Minister David Cameron asked the retail entrepreneur to take a look at government procurement. Some years later, the […]
Stories about apparently grotesque over-payment by public bodies for mundane items is always good for a headline or two. We saw that back in the days of the Private Finance […]
One of the more creative ways of committing procurement-related fraud is by the manipulation of specifications. It requires a little more skill than simply bribing a decision maker to choose […]
The headlines in the UK have been dominated in recent days about whether it is acceptable for politicians to receive gifts and hospitality from political donors. The new Labour government […]
I’ve generally stayed away from writing about the Grenfell fire tragedy. It just seemed too serious and horrible an issue to be talking about “bad buying” and technical procurement issues. […]
The Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) annual report is out now for the year ending October 2023. I’m not sure exactly when it was published but it always […]
A recent report suggested that the majority of clients of the big three strategy consulting firms are unhappy with the performance of the large consulting firms. An article in The […]