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IT managers have disputed the belief that there is a skills shortage for implementing business-to-business technology software, according to a study by software group BSOFTB. Of the 500 IT directors interviewed by BSOFTB, more than four-fifths said there was no shortage of skills.


Ford of Europe is to raise its online spend to up to a tenth of its purchasing budget - around £700 million - by the year’s end. The move is part of a wider European restructuring to prepare for a three-year overhaul of its product portfolio. Ford will also cut its £700 million logistics spend by 20 per cent.


Ofgem has announced that former energy regulator Stephen Littlechild is to join a new advisory panel to look at gas and electricity regulation. Littlechild was director-general of electricity regulator Offer until 1998, when current Ofgem head Callum McCarthy took over.
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