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The decisions that drive procurement are no longer entirely based on a view of direct purchase costs or on easily understood transaction costs. Additional influences are now associated with price competitiveness,...

Forbes recently announced that Workday was number two on its list of the world’s most innovative companies. As well as being immensely proud of this achievement, the list got me thinking about...

Watching your business grow is thrilling. It is incredibly motivating to see hard work and creativity combine to create a successful business. How can you ensure continued success though? Frequent evaluations...

The European Commission is predicting that the UK will have the weakest economic growth of all 28 EU countries over the next two years. Given this, business leaders would be wise...

The Chief Financial Officer is often and mistakenly stereotyped as a frugal bean counter, protecting the company’s wallet with an unwavering vow to be prepared for the proverbial rainy day. At...

According to Gartner, businesses are now entering the third era of IT, where digital business has matured “from tentative experiment to application at massive scale.” Forty-nine percent of CIOs polled in...

In 1909, the American mechanical engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor helped to usher in the era of manufacturing automation when he published “The Principles of Scientific Management.” Also known as Taylorism, scientific management...

Today’s IT work is never done. For every one project you complete, there are another five waiting in the wings. And applications you completed only a year ago already seem outdated and...

Whilst the concept of Zero Trust (ZT) networks is gaining broad popularity and acclaim, elements of the approach have been quietly adopted and applied within some sensitive government IT environments. The...

It is often said that “money makes the world go round”. We only have to look at the impact of the financial shocks of the past decade to see the truth...