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Q: I have received an invoice for a contract that was signed by a buyer in 1997. We were taken over by a Dutch company in 1999 and there is no record of the contract. What should I do?
8 May 2003 - London; 11 November 2003 - Edinburgh
11 December 2003
London
The web is not the only way to communicate. Purchasers should take account of their suppliers’ systems before investing in costly technology, says Bashrat Din
Q: I am looking to license some music for use in our UK operation. Is the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society - Performing Rights Society (MCPS-PRS) Alliance the only body in the UK that can license copyrighted music? In the US, there are three main
The umbrella body for the UK construction industry has urged the government to fund training in best value tendering for 10,000 civil servants responsible for procurement.
The paradox referred to in the title is that old chestnut about everyone thinking IT is a jolly good thing for businesses but not actually being able to prove it financially. This book comes at the conundrum using its “unique” benefits realisation approach.


Covisint, the automotive electronic marketplace, is to start pilots in the UK in November and will be fully operational by the end of March 2001, according to Mark Siellet, Covisint’s head of business and administration.


A near total failure of the Bank of Scotland’s (BoS) computer system caused the closure of all its cash machines and its Internet banking service last week. The three-hour crash came shortly after the bank outsourced all of its computer administration to IBM. BoS insisted the problem was unrelated to the outsourcing deal.


Food producer HJ Heinz has conducted what is thought to be the world’s first online reverse auction for television advertising. Working with auction specialist FreeMarkets, Heinz invited US media outlets, including several national TV companies, to bid to carry adverts for its Bagel Bites range of pizza-topped snacks.
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