Author: Victoria Vaughan

5th October 2021

How can you develop your employees’ skills for the jobs of the future?

A study carried out by McKinsey has recently revealed that 800 million jobs are expected to be lost to new technologies by 2030. It is also estimated that 85% of the jobs that will exist in...

Categories Corporate/Productivity

5th October 2021

Soft Skills in the Lean Age

Lean Management aims to continuously improve procedures in order to strengthen business productivity. Beyond its normative dimension, and because companies are above all made up of individuals, Lean Management also tends to structure organisations around people....

Categories Productivity

5th October 2021

Staggered working hours, an asset for occupational health?

The disruption caused by Covid-19 requires companies to make a number of adjustments to limit the spread of the virus. As well as hybrid working already in place, staggering working hours is also encouraged. While this system...

Categories Health & Safety

28th September 2021

What is the role of purchasing in the economic recovery?

More than a year and a half after the health crisis, the time has come for economic recovery. After the shutdown or slowdown of the vast majority of business sectors, companies are now poised for recovery....

Categories Corporate

28th September 2021

How is Digitalisation Reinventing the Purchasing Function? Part 3

Part 3: New Skills This report is divided into three main parts and aims to analyse the impact of digital transformation on procurement and to see how the profession will have to reinvent itself. The first...

Categories Corporate

20th September 2021

Why include sustainable consumption in a purchasing policy?

Sustainable consumption is one of the flagship sustainable development goals adopted by all the member states of the United Nations. Our modes of consumption and production have long been based on the exploitation of the environment...

Categories Corporate

20th September 2021

2030: What Is the Future of Procurement? Part 4

Part 4: A New Agenda In this report, the different phases in the evolution of purchasing are discussed: its prospects, essential preparation, and the skills that will be required. To conclude our look into the future,...

Categories Corporate/Procurement

20th September 2021

2030: What is the Future of Purchasing ? Part 3

After discussing the perspectives and the preparation necessary for purchasing in the face of the digital transformation of companies, this third part focuses on the skills the buyer will need by 2030. While certain skills or...

Categories Corporate

14th September 2021

2030: What Is the Future of Purchasing? Part 2

Part 2: Essential Preparation In the first part of this report on the future of the purchasing function, we examined the changes that buyers can expect by 2030. This second part discusses the need to prepare...

Categories Corporate

14th September 2021

How is Digitalisation Reinventing the Purchasing Function? Part 2

This report analyses the impact of digital transformation on the procurement profession and tries to identify the main ways in which the profession can reinvent itself. In the first part, we discuss the digitalisation of purchasing,...

Categories Corporate