by | Mar 4, 2011 | Procurement
Building the supply chain of the future. Fascinating analysis from McK on new options for the supply chain. The ideas of splintering based on volatility and component-based assembly-to-order are excellent.
by | Mar 22, 2010 | Procurement
There still appear to be procurement savings available: the IoD estimates £15bn. Procurement is always the first port of call for savings as it appears to be about lowering prices and therefore spend. I’m not sure £15bn in the procurement process makes sense,...
by | Mar 12, 2010 | Procurement
Valuable counsel: the simple presence of data can cause you take or not take action based on invalid assumptions. The question here is how to ensure that there are checks and balances on data presentation so that you can rely on your decision-making?
by | Jan 26, 2010 | Central government, Finance, ICT, Procurement
John Suffolk (Government CIO) expects a fun year ahead. I have tried to do some back of the envelope calculations based on his items and numbers in the OEP. My italics, all errors mine. HR must move to 1 HR person to 77 FTE from a median of 1:44 (Guesstimate saving on...
by | Jan 26, 2010 | Central government, ICT, Procurement
Interesting to see that the new frameworks are only two years (with a potential two-year extension) this should help keep up with the pace of change in technology (the frameworks include web design, for example). But the £1bn expected to go through the frameworks is...
by | Dec 7, 2009 | Central government, eGovernment, Finance, ICT, Procurement, Shared Services
Lots to digest in the Smarter Government report. Headlines: another £12bn in savings over the £26bn from Gershon and £35bn from OEP. In all, that’s approaching 10% of government spend. [NB Steph rightly counsels caution on the numbers.] Good to see that they...