Mike Utting's blog

SpringTide’s founder, Mike Utting, is a popular and successful consultant with over 25 years’ experience in purchasing across public and private sectors.

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NHS Takes a Strong Step Towards Healthier Spending

Monitor, the regulator for the NHS, published the results of a consultation that involved areas where they plan to address measures to “support trusts and foundation trusts in managing workforce challenges.”

Stress: Understanding It, Standing Up to It

Research into workplace stress based on responses from almost 700 senior HR practitioners and almost 2,000 employees found that 83% thought stress is harming workplace productivity.

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National Lorry Week

To mark National Lorry Week and as part of the continuing celebration of our recent Award for Excellence in Supply Chain Best Practice by the prestigious Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), we thought we’d share a little game we’ve devised. Just as the Award recognises our skills in managing the complex procurement of transport and logistics, so we thought we’d encourage a bit of recognition of lorries amongst our readers.

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Clear As Daylight – The clocks are going back!

In the UK the clocks will “go back” at 2am on Sunday, October 25th. This marks the end of BST (British Summer time) – in case you hadn’t noticed it was over – when we Britons return to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).

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Back to the Future of Procurement Technology

Recent research has suggested that the majority of companies think they are using Procurement Technology. But do you have the right technology for your business? Is it being used correctly and effectively? Are you ready for the IoT?

The Procurement of Procurement Technology

Let’s talk about P2P (Procure to Pay, Purchase to Pay), shall we? or perhaps we could settle on e-Procurement, which certainly covers buying intelligence, price comparisons, analysis and modelling tools and the generation of dashboards to visualise everything.