The Bad Buying Blog

It is three months today as I write this since Bad Buying — How Organisations Waste Billions Through Failures, Frauds, and F*ck-ups hit the (largely virtual) shops.  Penguin have re-printed now, a sign that whilst it hasn’t challenged Richard Osman at the top of the best-seller charts, it has sold reasonably well.…

Today is publication day for Bad Buying —
How Organisations Waste Billions Through Failures, Frauds, and F*ck-ups.

After 18 months of planning, writing, editing and production of the book, It is very sad that we can’t have a party to celebrate. Maybe we’ll be able to do a relaunch in a years’ time and get together.…

(From the Penguin website)

Organisations large and small spend up to 90% of their budgets on
external suppliers of goods and services. Huge amounts of money flow
between firms, yet most pay little attention to this element of their
business. All too often billions are wasted on large-scale projects and
the damage…