... group now has around 70 member organisations representing more than 2,000 professional purchasing staff. During the past three years ... value. “To me, purchasing in financial services has been more about internal selling than external buying,” says Steve Lemon, head of ...

... cut back her London business in the wake of a tax bill of more than £100,000. Recruitment-to-recruitment firm Ruella James entered a ... it." Crouch is now redefining her business by focusing more on search and selection within the rec-to-rec sector. For her company, ...

... railways. They were much larger than any earlier business, more complex and required substantially more capital. The railways would not fit into a traditional structure: by their ...

... by 3% – and London actually came out of lockdown with 6% more new businesses than the same period last year. Matt Smith, director of ... because a lot of good recruiters on furlough have had a lot more time to consider setting up for themselves,” he says. Firefish ...

... quicker and easier to do everything themselves. However, the more tasks you can delegate to other people, the easier it will make your own life. And if you are faced with a crisis, there will be more people able to help to overcome it. Fears about delegation may be based ...

... first time. Consultants, in theory at least, aren’t just more familiar with the processes of analysis and deduction that lead towards finding a solution, but they are also more likely to have worked on similar issues before. Most of them are also ...

... and coherent response to a crisis can now expect a far more negative public and media reaction than ever before. In short, ... to their stakeholders’ short-term preoccupation with the more glamorous profit-making strikers. Bob Draper, managing director of ...

... to support its growth plans. Arnot is a board adviser to more than 30 technology companies, and launched Founderz to help other business ...

... take on 2,000 people this year -; albeit this is down from more than 3,000 last year. While it may be a candidate-rich environment, ... of where to source talent globally. Mason seems much more exercised by the broader challenges of his role. “You cannot go anywhere ...

... with good long-term prospects. “That potentially becomes more of a game changer,” he says. However, he argues that one consequence ... two years, in an attempt to encourage employers to take on more staff, has been to reduce candidate mobility. “It is quite a risk to ...