'Dalliances' are vital, delegates told
28 August 2012
Purchasers should remember the importance of short-term, less strategic supplier relationships as they seek essential long-term alliances, according to academics involved in a government-backed research project.
The Discontinuous Innovation Forum project was set up by the Department for Trade and Industry last year to find ways of encouraging innovation in British industry.
Wendy Philips, from the Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply at Bath University, and one of the project's academic co-ordinators, told delegates that long-term strategic alliances...