The Bad Buying Blog
Your resource for everything good, bad, and befuddling about how organizations buy stuff.
A Walk Through HS2
Read moreIt is a while since I wrote about the UK’s infinite rail transport money pit, also known as HS2. When I first started criticising it years ago, based on my view that the business case was a con (having seen many dodgy public sector business cases over the years and even having helped write a few), I got some comments…
Bad Buying Wins Prestigious Award en Paris!
Read moreIt 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 – that is much appreciated.
The book has been translated into Polish,…
Bad Buying – Six Months On
Read moreIt is now more than six months since "Bad Buying — How Organisations Waste Billions Through Failures, Frauds, and F*ck-ups" hit the (largely virtual) shops. Many thanks to everyone who has bought it and even more so for those who have left reviews on Amazon and elsewhere.
We still haven’t sold lots of copies from…