Wednesday 9th July, 2014

According to the Deloitte CFO Survey for Q2 2014, policy change has emerged as the biggest concern for chief financial officers, coming before economic uncertainty. The survey gauged the views of 112 CFOs, including 31 from FTSE 100 and 37 from FTSE 250 companies.

Tuesday 8th July, 2014

In the latest edition of The Wire UK by AirPlus, Caroline Haywood, managing director and Roger Eccleston, Head of Strategic Projects from the company, talks through the changing responsibilities of travel management and what different skills sets bring to the party.

Monday 7th July, 2014

Cloud computing has achieved mainstream deployment in the UK according to the latest research from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), with some 78 per cent of organisations formally adopting at least one Cloud-based service.

The research, conducted in June 2014, polled 250 senior IT and business decision-makers, indicated a nine-point increase or 15 per cent growth over the last research project conducted in September 2013.

Friday 4th July, 2014

In a converstation with the BBC this week, the incoming Local Government Association (LGA) Head, David Sparks said that councils in England and Wales should help redesign what he termed as the "totally broken finance system" in operation across the councils.

Thursday 3rd July, 2014

According to the Procurement Outsourcing – Annual Report 2014 by Everest Group, the global multi-process Procurement Outsourcing (PO) market registered strong growth of 12 percent in 2013, with a record number of new deals.

End-to-end procurement process outsourcing tripled in share in the last three years, and PO is strengthening its foothold in the emerging markets of Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America.