While plenty of individuals at all levels in business would like their companies to act in a more environmentally-responsible manner, many are also highly cynical about their ability to influence their employer to make real and significant changes.
Yet it is crucial such individuals speak out, because the arguments in favour of adopting a truly sustainable [...]

To ensure a supplier can help clients manage risk and build better trust and partnerships the relationship needs to be supported by a good governance structure. Given my experience on outsourcing deals I would say that a good relationship is one that is well regulated and has incorporated a robust mechanism that allows flexibility for [...]

Last year in England, the national school tests for 14-year-olds had to be abandoned amidst a sea of accusations and recriminations. The US company managing the testing of well over half a million school students was effectively sacked and the Education Regulator responsible for the testing process, QCA, was severely criticised on many fronts such [...]

The default position of most businesses when it comes to all but the lightest-touch mandatory regulation is to oppose it. This is hardly surprising given governments and official regulators have a habit of inflicting compliance requirements which are cumbersome to administer and costly to meet. That said, most now recognise that in areas such as [...]

Since the start of the problems in the banking sector (let’s not go into how far back that goes), there has been a resultant push for more regulation to offset reoccurrences of the problem in all industries. The senior management in many companies will nowadays see regulatory risk alongside financial risk as the two key [...]

To ensure a supplier can help clients manage risk and build better trust and partnerships the relationship needs to be supported by a good governance structure. Given my experience on outsourcing deals I would say that a good relationship is one that is well regulated and has incorporated a robust mechanism that allows flexibility for [...]