The Social Value Act: Social? Valuable?

The Public Services (Social Value) Act was referred to as “a little gem” by Sir Stuart Etherington, Chief Executive of the national Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) when it came

Getting the right information fast reduces risk more effectively

What’s the best way of identifying the risk level attached to taking on a new supplier?

You could ask them directly, but there’s no guarantee you’ll get anything like the

A question of time

Last year’s Barclay Meade Tracking UK recruitment report showed that 82% of supply chain and logistics firms were recruiting at 2007 levels, and for what’s been referred to as the

The future is flexible labour

We’ve all been hoping for a recovery for far too long, even though some people even say it’s just over the horizon, while other, more optimistic souls say it’s already

Shift or fix?

To paraphrase the Bard: “To shift … or not to shift?  That is the question.”

We could continue with “whether ’tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of unfixed