18-21 June 2002
Cafe Royal, London
Cafe Royal, London
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Malcolm Taylor
Blackwell Science, £35
Rating: 2/5
A "cyber-store" allowing goods and services common to government departments and agencies to be ordered electronically will be "on its way within six months", according to Brian Rigby, director of the Treasury’s procurement group.
A report by the National Audit Office has severely criticised the Buying Agency (TBA) for weaknesses in its procedures. It says these led, in 1997, to its first-ever operating loss after a drop in its total operating surplus of more than £1 million.
Commerce One is to develop tools to handle complex web services this year in a further move away from its roots as a provider of public marketplace solutions.
The subtitle of this book: “8 big questions to guide organizational change” sums it up fairly accurately. Written as a training manual for teams about to embark on a large-scale organisational change programme, the author, Paul Levesque, assumes that senior managers tend to delegate the task of implementing organisational change to internal change agents.
Profex Publishing
Study Guides £25, examination workbook £11
Rating: 4/5
25 June 2002
Hotel Inter-Continental, London
Hotel Inter-Continental, London
Railtrack’s annual network management statement revealed little confidence in a long-term increase in rail distribution and a disappointingly low level of commitment to the sector, according to railfreight operators.