It is now just three days to publication of Bad Buying. So today, let’s move on to the second section of the book, all about fraud and corruption. This was […]
OK, I misspoke yesterday when I said it was six days until publication of Bad Buying – it was five. So today, not surprisingly, it is 4 days to go, […]
Bad Buying: How Organisations Waste Billions through Failures, Frauds and F*ck-ups hits the virtual shops and bookshelves next Thursday the 8th (you can order it here) so in the next […]
We should give Boohoo credit for commissioning an independent report from a top legal expert, Alison Levitt QC, to look into the Leicester “sweat shop” scandal. Earlier this year, the […]
Peter Smith explains why he wrote his book, published by Penguin Business in October 2020 – ” Bad Buying – How organizations waste billions through failures, frauds and f*ck-ups”. He […]
UK government procurement related to the pandemic continues to be a source of some concern and confusion. More consulting contracts were published on the Contracts Finder website last week, showing […]
Private Eye always has some interesting stories, and its coverage of the pandemic has been exemplary – its medical writer has given some of the best advice and most balanced […]
Construction of the HS2 high-speed railway network in England started formally last week. Some will be cheering – not me. At a time when working patterns have been changed because […]
It is easy to go wrong when evaluating and scoring supplier bids, and the consequences can be serious.
One of the first disasters of the current Covid crisis in the UK was the transfer of thousands of people out of hospitals into nursing and care homes, without checks […]