Where procurement people can – and should – have a field day

Posted in Procurement on December 07, 2010 by Dawn Sillett

‘I know, let’s get Sir Philip Green’ – good call, if his Efficiency Review, conducted for the Government, is anything to go by.  Just in case you haven’t caught up with it yet, or haven’t read the full presentation and want to, there’s a link below.

Reading Sir Philip’s key findings and recommendations, a few things strike me:
  • I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the jaw-dropping inefficiencies that he’s found
  • Sir Philip, and I’m guessing a hand-picked team of private sector professionals, unearthed a vast amount of information in just two months
  • The civil servants involved have not only been thanked for their help, but credited with being ‘willing and committed’ to deliver efficiency
  • Poor process and data, on a grand scale, is wasting billions
  • Government has been acting as a series of independent departments rather than as one body
  • There’s an astonishing lack of accountability, and no incentive to spend cash ‘as your own’

I could go on, but I don’t want to spoil your fun should you go on to read the full presentation.

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