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Aboriginal Procurement Opportunity – 10 Procurement Focus Areas

Apr 5, 2018 | INDIGENOUS PROCUREMENT

Aboriginal Procurement Opportunity - 10 Small Steps Procurement Can Take to Open the Door to Opportunities As the Western Australian government is rolling out its Aboriginal Procurement Policy, it is worthwhile looking at procurement's role to opening the doors for...

Procurement Success – Procurement’s Contribution to 100 Year Business

Nov 20, 2017 | PROCUREMENT LEADERSHIP

Procurement Success - How Procurement Contributes to Building Business to last for Centuries Procurement success plays an important role in the success or failure of business. However, very often we measure "procurement success" with a very short stick to alleviate...

Vision – Practising to Fit the Pieces of the Puzzle Together

Jul 4, 2017 | Commercial Support

Vision: Practising to Fit the Pieces of the Puzzle Together Hundred and fifty four days of taking time to write my vision. Hundred and thirty three days more than the original twenty one days I had in mind. And still counting. Why? Well, in the beginning of 2017, I...

9 Tips to Simplify Tender Writing and Making Tendering Easy

Apr 3, 2017 | TENDERING SUCCESS

9 Tips to Simplify Tender Writing and Making Tendering Easy As a procurement specialist, I have been working on both sides of the tendering playing field. I have done many tenders myself where I requested companies to tender. These days as a procurement advisor, I...

Bad Debtors – Learn how Bad Debt Damages Your Brand and Reputation

Mar 4, 2017 | CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

Bad Debtors: Do you realise the Damage to Your Brand and Reputation? I have to thank a customer for the inspiration for this post. It is the customer who had for weeks dodged calls and promised to pay my invoice of $693, has failed to do so and has now been moved to...

Leadership Qualities – Playing Cat and Mouse with Business Success

Jan 31, 2017 | PROCUREMENT LEADERSHIP

Leadership Qualities - Why Play Cat and Mouse with Business Success? Welcome to Ichiban's first newsletter of 2017. During January 2017, we focused on leadership qualities and improving capability. I am passionate about improving leadership in procurement and...

5 Tips for Winning Tenders by improving your Qualitative Tender Criteria

Jan 14, 2017 | TENDERING SUCCESS

5 Tips for Winning Tenders by improving your Qualitative Tender Criteria Do you also scratch your head wondering if you met the "qualitative criteria" and therefore wonder if you have a chance at winning tenders? One of the areas that most of my clients (and therefore...

Has Inspiration Reached its Business Expiry Date

Nov 29, 2016 | Commercial Support

Has Inspiration Reached its Business Expiry Date ? I did a search on "inspiration in business" this morning. It is a question that I have been asking myself for a while now. How do people manage to find their inspiration while there is a constant threat of...

Natural Leadership Impacts the Bottomline

Oct 31, 2016 | Commercial Support

Natural Leadership Impacts the Bottomline Welcome to our October 2016 newsletter. A number of years ago, I found a speech (" A Tough Challenge Leading People") given by Don Argus (previously chairman of BHPBilliton) on leadership challenges. The speech always...