... Force highlights a serious adult skills gap. It found that more than 30 per cent did not have five good GCSEs or the vocational ... to Japan, Korea, and other rapidly growing economies. More recently the Moser report reminded us that we still lag towards the bottom ...

... 1998 report Rethinking Construction, also called for more clients to be committed to best practice and for the industry to address ... the traditional design-bid-build process to one encompassing more total supply chain integration between clients, architects, contractors ...

... including councils’ competence to negotiate and manage more open-ended contracts with the private sector. It goes on to ask whether more training is likely to be required, where it will be made available and ...

More than half the marketplaces focus on only the short-term benefits, the ... marketplaces with traditional relationships. • For more details, contact McKinsey on 020 7961 5294. Featured?:  ...

... be very detailed, Mukherjee said. The new card will be more web-based with real-time data than its competitors, according to ... is pretty well sown up by Visa and Amex. It will need to be more acceptable to multinationals.” Cross-border buying with a purchasing ...

... and culture. An e-business strategy must be reviewed more often than most other types of strategy, according to Fritz Janssen, ... chief executive. He told SM: “These reviews must happen more often because changes in e-business processes are now happening much ...

... aircraft programme, which is worth £2.4 billion, fell more than two years behind schedule. “We are looking at ways of recouping ... warned that further penalties would be imposed if there are more delays. “BAE is working to reduce the programme risk and deliver to ...

... Macdonald estimates that the building industry alone has more than 100 associations, meaning that many would not be successful ... or Brussels is expensive. It is inevitable that it is more difficult for smaller organisations to be as influential as they need to ...

... with NTC Research, rose by 4.6 points to 50.1, marginally more than the 50 mark that indicates no change. The figure is the highest ... managers continue to destock. “The impression is of more of an inventory correction among clients than greater purchasing activity. ...

... strongest optimism for future activity among purchasers for more than four years, with confidence boosted by the prospect of more new public and private-sector contracts. Richard Harding, an economist ...