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Social Value – Optimizing your positive impact
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Optimizing your cost base in 2024
“Economic uncertainty” is the phrase occupying the minds of many executives these days. No one…
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Cost Optimization
Building a long-term alliance that’s mutually beneficial Businesses regularly turn to the CPO and ask for savings. It…
It’s A Risky Business
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Strategy & Planning
Open your eyes to the potential risks around the corner Sometimes danger appears in the most innocuous places. …
Today’s Forecast Calls for Inflation and Lots of It
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Finance & Procurement
Businesses Need to Look Beyond CPI to Understand What Is Happening What a week! What a year! There…
Can we be heroes?
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Capability & Skills
A survey just published by Huthwaite International states that just 9% of business leaders rank their Procurement teams…
Six ways to avoid the traps of alternative fee arrangements in legal procurement
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Professional Services
“You have 10 minutes to create a financially sound alternative fee arrangement (AFA) with an appropriate law firm…
Do you have the right skills to deliver your procurement strategy?
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Capability & Skills
Strategic procurement insights ‘People are your greatest asset’ is an age-old mantra that many successful companies embrace. A recent…
Stop wasting your digital advertising budgets
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Cost Optimization
Almost every day I read another article about how amazing digital advertising is. Finally I see an increasing…
Businesses rely on suppliers, but their relationships are stuck in the past
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Cost Optimization
In today’s dynamic, hyper-connected business environment, having good supplier relationships is critical for success. However, unlike supply chains…
What is the real risk of poorly managed supplier relationships?
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Finance & Procurement
The opportunities offered by global, extended supply eco-systems can help companies uncover new sources of value. But there’s…
Change to procurement is inevitable
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Procurement Explainers
Modern day businesses have no excuse for standing still. Bigger, better, stronger, faster – life refuses to stand…
Staying ahead of search: selecting the right agency for your needs
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Cost Optimization
SEM is an increasingly important part of a marketer’s toolkit, and as ad spend and audience figures continue…
What’s more important than growth and customer relationships?
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Capability & Skills
Move over business growth and customer relationships; if slavery isn’t on your boardroom agenda you’re not only missing…
The need for a new approach to complex, global supply ecosystems
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Agility
Customers are punishing companies they no longer trust. Research conducted by Proxima revealed that 45% of consumers would…