Why You Should Invest in Procurement Training
Procurement teams have an important strategic role to play in an organisation: where once upon a time procurement may have been seen to play a purely transactional role, now procurement is just as important as sales when it comes to an organisation’s bottom line. For that reason, good training that’s tailored to your team’s needs … Continue reading Why You Should Invest in Procurement Training
Our New Online Learning Platform is Launching on Monday!
We are thrilled to announce that we’ll be launching our new online learning platform Evolve Online Learning on Monday. We’ve been working on this for almost two years, and are really excited to hear what you think. How it works We’ve packed the platform with hundreds of hours of learning content, from microlearning courses on giving constructive … Continue reading Our New Online Learning Platform is Launching on Monday!
So What Exactly Is Interaction Engineering?
Interaction Engineering: The action of working artfully to create something of value when two or more people communicate with each other. We know that how the people who make up a business all work together, understand each other and communicate is as important as how software packages interact or a production line functions. People are … Continue reading So What Exactly Is Interaction Engineering?
How to Buy Stuff for Your Business
If you buy things regularly you probably feel that there may not be anything else to learn about how to buy stuff for your business, especially if it’s a task that you do every day. However, when you buy anything, from something so small as a sheet of paper to something as large as a … Continue reading How to Buy Stuff for Your Business
A Procurement Professional’s Guide To Buying Christmas Presents
It’s that time of year again, your family require Christmas presents to keep the relationship going, you have a limited budget and you are running out of time. Do you start with a plan? Do you wander round town looking in the shops, choosing stuff at random and then try to fit the present to … Continue reading A Procurement Professional’s Guide To Buying Christmas Presents
A Procurement story: from confrontation to co-operation.
Procurement has become an increasingly important function in a wide range of industries and business sectors. It is seen as a strategic function, a function that touches and influences all aspects of a business’s operation. Procurement should facilitate, enable and empower but procurement is also often misunderstood and can lead to confrontation. The language … Continue reading A Procurement story: from confrontation to co-operation.