3-4 December 2002
Midlands
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Lots of senior purchasers are overpaid. The real work is done by less senior buyers and they deserve more, argues Christopher Barrat
Thomas Stewart
Nicholas Brealey, £19.99
Rating: 4/5
Edited by Jing-Sheng Song & David Yao
Kluwer, £94.50
Rating: 3/5
3-5 December 2002
Olympia Grand Hall, London
Olympia Grand Hall, London
I found this book to be an excellent addition to the extremely important area of commercial relationships in all their varied forms. The book, of some 280 pages, covers a wide range of issues that feature in the CIPS professional exam of the same name. It looks at many areas, including:
Hospital Management and Supplies (HM&S), the medical and surgical division of Alliance UniChem, has announced the acquisition of one of its strongest competitors, Surgicon.
Last week’s Budget was condemned as “crass, cruel and crazy” by the truck operators’ body, the Freight Transport Association (FTA), who added that it was “callous”, “grossly unfair” and “stupidly short-sighted”.
Stakeholder Strategy is another of those books that believes it has a good idea and wishes to spend 200 pages expounding it.
This is not necessarily a bad thing but I sometimes wish authors would realise that not every reader agrees with all their opinions - a little more argument and debate would not go amiss.
This is not necessarily a bad thing but I sometimes wish authors would realise that not every reader agrees with all their opinions - a little more argument and debate would not go amiss.