Monday 7th April, 2014

Tesco announced on Friday that their Chief Financial Officer, Laurie McIlwee has decided to step down. The annoucement follows last month's news that the supermarket's market share had shrunk to 27% - its lowest level for almost 10 years.

Friday 4th April, 2014

Too often still an after-thought, the use of social media has the power to strengthen an organisation's process improvement. Social media by definition is immediate and by using it organisations have access to real-time data. Many of today's leading organisations are already making use of it in their BPM agendas.

Thursday 3rd April, 2014

According to a CBI survey, there is a small but growing trend for firms to bring back parts of their business to Europe. The survey suggested that many more would consider doing so if the European Union (EU) become more competitive.

Wednesday 2nd April, 2014

The Cabinet Office will have to work with other government departments to ensure that the full benefits of its shared services strategy are realised and that service is maintained, according to a report from the National Audit Office today.

In December 2012, the Cabinet Office published its Next Generation Shared Services strategy. This set out how it intended to reduce the cost of administering finance, human resources and procurement services through sharing back-office functions. The Cabinet Office estimated that the savings would be between £400 million and £600 million per annum. The estimated implementation cost was between £44 million and £95 million. To date, the total cost of participating departments has not been collated. The Cabinet Office spending to date on the strategy was £9.8 million.

Tuesday 1st April, 2014

Basware has signed a significant AP and e-invoicing agreement with a major New Zealand construction firm. The agreement includes a license-based solution for invoice automation powered by Alusta - Basware's cloud-based platform for Purchase-to-Pay and services for receiving e-invoices and scanning paper invoices. Basware is helping the customer to activate their suppliers to send e-invoices and provides a portal for supplier collaboration. The solution and services will be implemented in New Zealand and Australia. The value of the agreement is EUR 2.5 million over three years.