Candidates often battle with the case study question on the strategy paper. CIPS chief examiner Alexis Brooks offers some useful tips that could make you better armed to answer it
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CIPS’s first female president takes up her post today. But as Geraint John discovers, she is more concerned that purchasers see the wider business picture than with her own milestone
The World Bank’s aid purchasing operations have influenced other huge organisations, the European Union among them. But they are outdated, inefficient and waste millions of pounds, says Tim Tucker
The new Competition Act, which came into force last week, is ushering in some radical changes to UK commercial law. Ian Longdin examines its likely impact
Every year, students sitting the compulsory CIPS professional stage case study paper make similar errors. John Ireland offers some tips on answering the questions successfully
As there have been no British court rulings to date on the legality of e-mail contracts, purchasers have been forced to look further afield for legal precedents governing Internet commerce, Paul Abbiati explains
There is something about Easter that makes paint and plasterboard irresistible. Not so alluring is the job of equipping DIY stores for the period - it is a real challenge that requires more than just forward planning, says Stephen Overell
The key to good marks in the professional stage tactics and operations case study question, says Neil Fuller, is to strike the right balance between context and strategy
If you think you have a hard time sitting the CIPS examination papers, rest assured that the examiners also have to put themselves through numerous tests. Georgina Sear explains the system
The UK government could find itself in court over a 1995 white paper covering the number of candidates to be invited to tender in a restricted procedure. Brian Clark and Steven Norris investigate