Tag: Scott Graham

If someone is proclaiming they are an expert in their field, more often than not, they’re telling fibs. Here’s a look at the kind of specialists you can put your trust in, and spend your dollars on.

Are you focused on financial reward only or are you truly striving (as hard as this may be) to be the best in your space? Here’s how one business owner is ensuring his team of directors and employees are constantly working to achieve this.

The movement in Australian organisations to deliver “more for less” and reduce risk is really starting to register on the radar within boardrooms.

The message of delivering more for less is hugely important in business, but despite this, sourcing and tendering are two areas that are very often neglected. Here’s how to drive more value in this vital area.

The best negotiators are those who come to the meeting with a negotiation planned out – but with room to be flexible and a mindset of fairness to both parties. If you haven’t mastered this important skill, these 10 tips will help.

If all an employee wants to do is order some paper for the photocopying machine, the process to do this should be easy and intuitive. Unfortunately, most businesses don’t succeed at this. But, if you make your procurement process as simple as Amazon and eBay do, staff won’t bypass your systems – they’ll embrace them.

According to Gartner, a staggering 75 percent of all IT implementations fail. Use these tips to ensure it doesn’t happen in your business, wasting valuable time and money.

Do you know what determines the success of a software implementation? According to the experts, you need to know what you want, which provider you want it from and how to stay focused on the solution you have in mind.

Or do you not manage it at all? Reducing supplier risk and having greater transparency is crucial to businesses across Australia.

eProcurement has been talked about since early 2000 in Australia, although only a small number of switched on organisations have really embraced the benefits. Here’s a look at what eProcurement could do for your business’ bottom line.