Improving SME Procurement Enables Social Procurement
B2B buyers have multi-fold corporate responsibilities. First and foremost, they must obtain value-for-money in purchasing solutions that solve problems their organization faces. This means buying the right solution, from the right supplier, at the right price. This is part of a broader mandate. Private companies exist to generate profitable cash flow for their owners. Government […]
Social Procurement Needs Us to Ask the Right Questions
Organizations buy goods and services to solve problems. If there is a subsequent issue with the procurement, if it turns out that what they bought didn’t fix whatever needed fixing, it could be for many different reasons. But the core explanation may be mis-specification of the problem. It is likely that what they sourced was […]