Items tagged with : Procurement
A new dawn for UK healthcare
Healthcare in the United Kingdom is provided by the government through its healthcare provider, the NHS (National Health Service). The NHS is one of t...
21 November 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Functions Other, Europe, UK, All Columns,A shift to the right (Part 2)
Something radical? In Part 1 we looked at how the UK government is re-examining the way it does business, the size and shape of its IT and outsourcin...
21 April 2011 | Articles, UK, All Columns,A shift to the right?
The UK government is taking a close, hard look at how it does business. Its review reaches beyond savings strategies into fundamental questions about ...
08 March 2011 | Articles, Procurement, Europe, UK, All Columns,Capgemini
Business Process Outsourcing Organizations expect more today from Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) than traditional low-cost transaction processing....
01 September 2010 | Directory, Finance & Accounting, Procurement,Colin Grace
Colin Grace has over twenty years' experience of managing large-scale business and IT projects and ten years' experience of delivering major...
20 September 2011 | Columnists, Europe, UK,CPO Exchange 2012
IQPC Exchange is delighted to introduce its premier CPO Exchange, to be held on the 22nd - 24th February 2012. This invitation only event brings toget...
20 September 2011 | Events, Conferences,DHL Procurement Outsourcing set up
Deutsche Post DHL, the world’s largest logistics group, has launched a procurement outsourcing service to offer cost-savings to both public- and priva...
04 June 2010 | Articles, Procurement, Logistics, Europe, UK,Government ICT policy: throwing the baby out with the bath water?
As I suggested in last week’s blog, it seems as though the wind of change is blowing hard through public sector procurement processes at the moment – ...
14 April 2011 | All Columns, UK, Articles,Government Procurement & Commissioning
Public sector procurement spend is £221bn a year, about one third of total public sector expenditure. The coalition Government has made it clear that ...
08 September 2010 | Events, Procurement, Europe, UK,Greening the Chain
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #24 Summer 2011 As sustainability moves up the corporate agenda, driven by its incre...
29 June 2011 | Articles, Procurement, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Head-to-Head: Duncan Aitchison & Rick Simmonds
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #23 Spring 2011 In the second instalment of our new Head-to-Head series, we turn to the ...
06 April 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Highlights from the SIG Global Sourcing Summit
As I started working on the highlights from this spring’s SIG Global Sourcing Summit, I was overwhelmed by what a great mix of thought leadership and ...
21 May 2012 | Articles, North America / Caribbean, USA, Global, All Columns,Innovation: a hoary old scab, or something worth talking about? (Part 2)
Margin. It all comes down to margin. Margin for the outsourcer. Margin for the customer. In my last article, I looked at definitions of innovation ...
20 June 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Interview: Joe Black, Aetna
Sourcing Interests Group CEO Dawn Evans interviews Joe Black, CPO for health insurance and benefits provider Aetna, at the SIG Summit in Flo...
01 June 2011 | Procurement, Videos, Global,Kate Vitasek
Author, educator and business consultant Kate Vitasek is a internationally recognised innovator in the practice of supply chain management and outsour...
08 February 2011 | Columnists, Procurement, Logistics, Global,Lamar Chesney, SunTrust Bank's Well-Known CPO Interviewed by SIG CEO Dawn Evans
Dawn Evans, President and CEO of Sourcing Interests Group sits down with Lamar Chesney, EVP and CPO of SunTrust Bank on the topic of leadership in pro...
25 October 2011 | Videos, Audio,London Regional Roundtable
SIG is returning to London! Sourcing Interests Group, the premier organization for sourcing, outsourcing and procurement executives invites you to ou...
13 January 2012 | Events, Conferences, Europe, UK, Procurement,Marika Lindstrom
Marika Lindstrom is VP, Indirect Procurement, Global Supply Management for Unilever. She has extensive experience in leading change management program...
06 September 2010 | Columnists,Midsummer murders or winter of discontent?
They were summoned (or summonsed ... you decide) to appear ... the challenge was clear: how to incentivise the top echelon of IT suppliers to UK gover...
27 October 2010 | Articles, IT, Europe, UK, All Columns,Never the Twain?
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #24 Summer 2011 I was delighted to be asked to write for this fine magazine, but fel...
29 June 2011 | Articles, Procurement, Global, All Columns,Outsourcing advisors
Many organisations use third-party advisors when making outsourcing decisions, creating Requests for Purchase (RFPs) and as support during negotiation...
13 January 2011 | Articles, Global, All Columns,Planet ITO
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #27 Spring 2012 It is “the backbone of the outsourcing marketplace”, according to ISG’...
05 April 2012 | Articles, IT, Global, All Columns,Procure To Pay India 2012
IQPC’s Procure to Pay (P2P) India 2012 will highlight procurement processes that span sourcing, order placement, payment, settlement, reconciliation c...
03 April 2012 | Conferences, Procurement, India, Events,Public procurement rules and outsourcing in the EU – time for change?
The EU Commission published a Green Paper in January 2011 seeking views on modernisation of the much criticised EU public sector procurement regulatio...
06 May 2011 | IT, HR, Finance & Accounting, Articles, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Europe, All Columns,Public sector outsourcing on the rise
In recent weeks, we’ve seen a number of initiatives from the government aimed at making it easier for organisations in the private sector looking to s...
07 April 2011 | Articles, Europe, UK, All Columns,Public sector outsourcing: tackling the SME challenge
In its first year, the coalition government initiated a hiatus of activity and announcements. I’ve heard a Tory MP describe it as a policy "blitz...
06 June 2011 | Articles, Europe, UK, All Columns,Q&A: Andre Le Lerre, Ericsson
Andre Le Lerre is Chief Procurement Officer, Mediterranean Region, Ericsson. Ahead of his appearance at theGlobal Strategic Procurement Congress 2012,...
17 November 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Global, All Columns,Q&A: Bill Huber, TPI
At March's Sourcing Interests Group Summit in Florida, Outsource met up with Bill Huber, Partner - CPO Services with sourcing advisory major TPI...
12 April 2011 | Articles, North America / Caribbean, USA, Global, All Columns,Q&A: Frank de Reij, Air France-KLM
Frank de Reij is Group CPO, Air France-KLM. In advance of his presentation at the forthcoming CPO Exchange, to be held February 22-24 in Munich, Germa...
16 February 2012 | Articles, Procurement, Europe, France, The Netherlands, Other, Global, All Columns,Q&A: John Dickens, NEC Europe
John Dickens is Shared Service Manager for NEC Europe Ltd. In advance of his presentation at SSON's Finance Transformation Europe 2012, taking pl...
03 February 2012 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, Europe, Germany, Spain, UK, Other, Asia/Pacific, Other, Global, All Columns, Procurement,Right From The Start
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #23 Spring 2011 In the third article in a series of five, the National Outsourcin...
04 April 2011 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Customer Service, Logistics, Legal, Functions Other, Europe, UK, Global, All Columns,The Bribery Act: one month on…
The new Bribery Act came into force recently in a bid to stamp out corruption and bring the UK in line with international anti-corruption legislation....
29 July 2011 | Articles, Procurement, Legal, Europe, UK, All Columns,The drive towards transparency
In recent times, we’ve seen remarkable progress made on public sector transparency in this country, a development which has been helped by the governm...
25 February 2011 | Articles, Europe, UK, Global, All Columns,The Outsourcing Partnership Summit
Following on from the success of the inaugural Outsourcing Partnership Summit last October, organizers Forum Events are pleased to announce the dates ...
09 February 2012 | Events, Conferences,The public sector shared services paradox
The paradox is that delivering shared services requires an ERP solution enabler. The reality is most public sector bodies don’t have the capacity to i...
15 September 2011 | Articles, Europe, UK, All Columns,The Recruiting Officer
Paul Awcock is Head of HR – Recruitment for Aviva, one of the world’s largest insurers. We spoke with Paul about the advantages – and challenges – of ...
15 December 2010 | Articles, HR, Europe, UK,The role of procurement in global sourcing
My article 'Why is sourcing becoming a priority for the CIO office?' shared the drivers for the emergence of strategic sourcing departments ...
30 September 2011 | Articles, Procurement, Global, All Columns,TOP TEN: Optimal Procurement Outsourcing
This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #25 Autumn 2011 Procurement outsourcing, which has been predicted for many years to ta...
28 September 2011 | Articles, Procurement, Global, All Columns,Vesting in practice
By design this column has, for the most part, examined the theories and research of academic and economic luminaries that have helped form the basis o...
08 February 2012 | Articles, Finance & Accounting, Global, All Columns,Why is sourcing becoming a priority for the CIO office?
The war for technology talent is expected to become more and more significant over years for organisations to gain and sustain competitive advantage. ...
18 April 2011 | Articles, IT, Procurement, Global, All Columns,Wisdom and foolishness: public procurement and outsourcing
Despite evidence to the contrary from literature and drama, fools rarely utter wise thoughts. But our common experience is that wise men and women fre...
03 April 2012 | Articles, Procurement, Europe, UK, North America / Caribbean, USA, Global, All Columns,
Outsource magazine and the ACCA announce an exclusive partnership
