The Bad Buying Blog
Your resource for everything good, bad, and befuddling about how organizations buy stuff.
Your resource for everything good, bad, and befuddling about how organizations buy stuff.
Bad buying obviously covers every potentially sector and category, but I have had a long interest in professional services spend and procurement for many years, including as co-author of “Buying […]
This is a big year for public procurement in the UK. In October (probably) the new Procurement Act becomes law, finally replacing the EU public procurement legislation with a new […]
(Pic; A&E on a Saturday night) Incentivisation is a fascinating topic. In a business context, for example in terms of incentivising the right behaviour by suppliers, it can require knowledge of […]
Congratulations to Shirley Cooper, CIPS Past President, who has become the UK government’s “Crown Representative for small businesses”. In that role, she will represent the interests of smaller firms, particularly […]
There was a major announcement this week in UK public sector procurement. Gareth Rhys Williams (GRW), who has been Chief Commercial Officer for government since 2016 was appointed the new […]