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The McCue Interview: Rob Fraser, IT director, Boots
Comment A quarter of the £300m was spent on Boots' SAP platform, including SAP's retail, financials, property, treasury and procurement modules. About two-thirds of that total investment - just over £200m - went into the in-store IT infrastructure, which... [25 Apr 2007]
The SME hype cycle
Comment Read silicon.com's special report on SME procurement, including analysis on SMEs and open source, how small businesses buy IT, and a look at which telecoms services SMEs should buy. Let's start with the IT vendors themselves, i.e.software authors... [25 Jul 2006]
Leader: No to any NHS IT whitewash
Leader Hutton referred to the clinical consultation as a "sham" that has led to the procurement of systems that don't meet clinical needs, while Nowlan said the rush to sign contracts "trumped all other aspects of consideration". [27 Jun 2006]
Brampton Factor: Fighting e-crime
Comment One might have thought that the rapid growth in e-procurement would have driven down costs. When there is talk of new legislation to deter e-crime, the culprits are usually depicted as either delinquent hackers or organised criminals. [16 May 2006]
Devil's Advocate: The e-auction game
Comment A lot has been made of the public sector making big savings on procurement by purchasing items such as PCs through electronic auctions. The spin is that e-auctions are providing dramatic reductions in price. [26 Apr 2005]
Election 2005: Next government must launch 'war on hackers'
Comment It also wants to see more promotion of UK businesses in the face of cheaper competition offshore, and wants to see more access to government procurement by smaller businesses. Roberts said it would also be useful for government to promote its own... [21 Apr 2005]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now… Sir Peter Gershon
Comment Another part of the legacy will be Project Zanzibar, an XML-based e-hub, possibly about to shave tens of millions of pounds off government procurement. With the countdown to this year's Agenda Setters report underway, we look back at the top 10... [27 Aug 2004]
Leader: E-procurement - remember it, it's now with us
Leader In the late 1990s, this writer found himself penning a fair amount about e-procurement. Remember how industry-wide e-hubs such as Covisint for automotive - distinct from e-procurement in general - were going to revolutionise supply chains? [18 Aug 2004]
Leader: Government IT leaders on verge of new era
Leader Over at the Office of Government Commerce, Sir Peter Gershon, who has overhauled public sector IT procurement procedures, has just handed over the reigns to his deputy John Oughton. The hunt for a government-wide CIO is also underway to replace the... [05 May 2004]
Leader: How much do you spend?
Leader Admittedly the survey was sponsored by e-procurement company Ariba, which rather handily claims to have a solution to the problem, but the company, along with the London Business School says it is a business process issue that first needs to be... [10 Mar 2004]
Analysis: E-procurement back on the agenda
Comment Of the many technology revolutions promised during the boom years of the late 1990s, e-procurement was one that fell a long way when bubble burst and CFOs started asking about returns on multi-million pound systems often bought for no better... [24 Feb 2004]
Gartner on 2003 - the bad news
Comment Management has 'e'd' procurement, the sales force and every other part of the organisation," said Mark Raskino, Gartner research director. The one thing it didn't 'e' was itself. Call it realism, call it pessimism - just don't look to Gartner for... [16 Dec 2002]
Devil's Advocate: The chauvinism of ebusiness
Comment Should retail, corporate procurement, tourism and financial services naturally be revolutionised by the web? The government's wave of enthusiasm for broadband and e-government is not carrying the private sector. [10 Dec 2002]
Procurement: to single-source or multi-source?
Comment Secondly, the government's procurement agency signed-up Orange as a mobile phone supplier, bringing an end to Vodafone's monopoly in that area. The contracts are of a very different nature, but it is nevertheless instructive that similar thinking... [13 Sep 2002]
What if... we started spending again on IT?
Comment All you had to do was adopt a concerned look when the customer admitted they didn't have an enterprise portal strategy or an e-procurement project and say: "Don't worry, we can help. There was a time when users couldn't get enough IT. [04 Sep 2002]
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