The Bad Buying Blog

(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…

The state-of-the-art, whizz-bang, latest technology printer
that the Irish government bought in 2018 was going to produce wonderful
documents at, one assumes, a competitive cost. The Komori equipment is highly
rated, but there was only one problem for the government. 

When it arrived in Dublin, in December…