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Keystone Column 73 - Best Practice Bid ManagementKeystone ColumnProcurement Training

Keystone Column 73 – Procurement Best Practice

Welcome to the Keystone Column. This week more news stories about breaches in procurement rules and the consquences of not following procurement best practice.  All is not lost however: InterTradeIreland shows how small businesses can follow procurement best practice. As usual, we conclude with our weekly list of current Irish…
Donnacha Phelan
Donnacha Phelan2nd June 2017
Keystone Column 72 - Tackling Fraud Keystone ColumnProcurement Sourcing

Keystone Column 72 – Tackling Fraud

Welcome to the Keystone Column. This week: we take a broad perspective on allegations of fraud in Cavan County Council, the Garda Training College and examine how one FinTech firm is looking to tackle the risk of fraud in the development aid sector.  We also look at calls for greater freedom…
Ross McCarthy
Ross McCarthy25th May 2017
Keystone Column 71 - Procurement rules. Bid ManagementKeystone ColumnProcurement Training

Keystone Column 71 – Procurement rules

Welcome to the Keystone Column. This week: procurement rules and how they are applied! We see some cases of what happens when the rules are not followed. And what procurement rules will apply for those selling into Brexit UK? As usual, we conclude with our weekly list of current Irish…
Donnacha Phelan
Donnacha Phelan19th May 2017
Keystone Column 70 - Mitigating Risks. Bid ManagementKeystone ColumnProcurement SourcingProcurement StrategyProcurement Training

Keystone Column 70 – Mitigating risks

Welcome to the Keystone Column. This week we look at mitigating risks: how procurement teams can prepare for crises in their supply chains. We look at the Dutch state railways use of Ireland to avoid tax, and the High Court confirms unsuccessful tenderers cannot avoid the strict time limits under the…
Donnacha Phelan
Donnacha Phelan11th May 2017
Keystone Column 69. The Innovation Principle and Sustainability Bid ManagementBusiness GrowthKeystone ColumnProcurement SourcingProcurement Strategy

Keystone Column 69 – The Innovation Principle and Sustainability

Welcome to the Keystone Column. This week we look at Amsterdam's dynamic sharing economy, the innovation principle and why it should be adopted in Ireland and the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in construction. As usual, we conclude with our weekly list of current Irish public tenders.   Business news…
Ross McCarthy
Ross McCarthy5th May 2017
Negotiation Bid ManagementBrexitBusiness Growth

Negotiation processes: lessons for suppliers from Brexit

Popular images of negotiations come loaded with lazy tropes. The smoke filled rooms (years after smoking bans) still get rolled out as they convey a sense of shady deal-making and finagling that is rare in reality. Chemistry tells us that for fire to spark, you need fuel, heat and oxygen.…
Ross McCarthy
Ross McCarthy3rd May 2017
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Keystone Column 68 – New Ideas and the Smart City

Welcome to the Keystone Column. This week we look at taxing questions that require new responses, trends in the world of the smart city and a global trend in tackling modern slavery hits France. As usual, we conclude with our weekly list of current Irish public tenders.   News Stories Taxing…
Ross McCarthy
Ross McCarthy27th April 2017
Keystone Column 67. Data-driven Decisions Bid ManagementBrexitBusiness GrowthKeystone ColumnProcurement Sourcing

Keystone Column 67 – Data-driven Decisions

Welcome to the Keystone Column. This week we look at the importance of data-driven decisions for both policy makers and investors. As usual, we conclude with our weekly list of current Irish public tenders. Business stories A lack of data-driven decisions in housing More than one in five applicants have…
Donnacha Phelan
Donnacha Phelan21st April 2017
Keystone Column 66. Prioritising Competitiveness Bid ManagementBrexitKeystone Column

Keystone Column 66 – Prioritising Competitiveness

Welcome to the Keystone Column. This week we look at prioritising competitiveness in Ireland plus we consider what innovators should avoid doing. As usual, we conclude with our weekly list of current Irish public tenders. Business stories Prioritising Competitiveness in Ireland The political stasis at the heart of Irish government is…
Donnacha Phelan
Donnacha Phelan14th April 2017
Keystone Column 65. Sourcing Innovation Bid ManagementKeystone Column

Keystone Column 65 – Sourcing Innovation

Welcome to the Keystone Column. This week we look at sourcing innovation - it is not easy to envisage solutions that do not exist yet. We highlight important opportunities for innovative SMEs post Brexit and consider just how innovative is the Irish economy. As usual, we conclude with our weekly list of current…
Donnacha Phelan
Donnacha Phelan7th April 2017
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