Why read this post? It will help you sanity check your approach to buying digital transformation services and/or supporting solutions that may involve significant integration complexities. Why misunderstandings arise when buying digital transformation services In over 85% of the Expert…

A complex business change initiative involves implementing strategic changes to the way an organisation operates. This type of project requires your team to have a deep understanding of the current state of the organisation and the desired outcomes, as well…

Whole Life Costing is a critical aspect of the strategic procurement process of complex projects and a key tool for decision-making and budget allocation. The following is an illustrative guide to simplify the process of producing Whole Life Costing for…

Increased accuracy in predicting the costs involved within any complex/strategic project offers significant advantages – whether in negotiations within the procurement process, in developing more collaborative working relationships with your suppliers or in optimising efforts towards shared outcomes. And, while…

When UKCloud, the public sector hosting firm, went into liquidation, the government’s assurances that there would be little to no disruption as a result may have been premature. Reports in the media coming from some of UKCloud’s remaining customers suggest…

Why read this article? Key takeaways: There are 13 key subject areas of great practical importance which the government’s ‘Sourcing Playbook’ recommends in order to help drive maximum value in these complex projects and relationships. The first half of this…

Digitising health records has been a government goal since the days of the failed NHS National Programme for IT (NPfiT) – launched in 2002 with a budget of £6.2 billion its goal was, among other top-down changes, to introduce a…

An Ofcom investigation, which has been going on since June, has concluded that in their provisional view, Motorola Solutions UK and Sepura have broken UK and EU competition law during what should have been a competitive procurement process by UK…

There are key differences in the core functions of private and public sector organisations. When you bring them together in a complex strategic supplier relationship, you will have some who will be fundamentally opposed to the partnership from an ideological…

It’s encouraging to focus an article on a success story. The one that caught our attention is the strategic supplier relationship between the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and social justice charity Nacro, whose role is to assist in the reform…

The effects of Covid-19 on the NHS and its staff are likely to be felt long into the future. The current crisis has seen an unprecedented demand for acute care, particularly intensive care units, which has led to significant efforts…

As we enter the tenth week of ‘Lockdown’ here in the UK, we have seen the government going to significant lengths to protect businesses and jobs. It has invested funds and resources at unprecedented levels on schemes, loans, packages and…

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is the UK government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and for the British Armed Forces. The MoD manages the day to day running of the armed forces, contingency planning and defence procurement.…

The Salvation Army is an amazing organisation that supports the most vulnerable in our communities. It is now an entity that turns over some £300m, has over 8,000 suppliers, each of which gets a share of the £160m it is…

In October 2017 the NAO produced a report on The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) Magnox contract after losses and legal proceedings necessitated an investigation into what went wrong, and why this £6bn contract was being cancelled at a nine-figure cost…