Adam Rose, David Leibowitz and Adrian Magnus
Gower, £39.95
Rating: 3/5
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Construction and project management company Bovis Lend Lease has reduced its local supply base in favour of a more global supply chain.
This Harvard Business School book offers a new and useful way of thinking about strategy in a world economy that is rapidly integrating. The nature of globalisation is often volatile and uncertain, and the authors suggest what it will take to overcome these problems and succeed in markets and industries that are fundamentally changing and evolving.
5-8 May 2002
San Francisco
San Francisco
Ariba's position in the e-procurement software market has been dealt a new blow following the surprise departure of chief executive Larry Mueller after less than three months in the job.
Mueller resigned after a board meeting a day ahead of the group's
Mueller resigned after a board meeting a day ahead of the group's
The Art of Decision Making Helga Drummond John Wiley, £17.99 The title is instructive for, as Drummond is keen to make clear, her theme is not the science of decision-making. Statistics, models, spreadsheets and risk analysis have their place, she argues, but they can lull us all into a false sense of security.
Edited by Elizabeth Cooper
World Markets Research Centre, £80
Rating: 3/5
Procurement directors involved in purchasing consortia could fall victim to dawn raids by the Office of Fair Trading when the new Competition Act 1998 comes into law, according to a solicitor and member of CIPS’s legal committee.