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5 ways to improve your next print tender

Print: often overlooked, regularly misunderstood, rarely top of the agenda....

Much as it makes sense for any supplier to provide performance reports for the obligatory QBRs (quarterly business reviews), suppliers should not be the regulators of their own data. Especially when it comes to financial reporting. Over the last 20+ years, the move from in-house provision to outsourcing has taken control and visibility of this data away from the client. This is particularly true in our area of specialism; print procurement.

Lessons for the industry: marking your own homework

“We absolutely accept that self-monitoring is not helping to instil...

Calm store environments. Credit Ahead App

Does retail need a mood boost?

There is no doubt, the way we shop has changed....

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Start as you mean to go on

I, like many others, am a procrastinator. I need prompting...

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Continuous improvement and how coaching football brought it to life

Plan, do, review was the mantra for designing and executing...

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The future direction of Marketing Operations… admin or adding value?

... admin or adding value? At the end of last...

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Not how but why

We’ve been hearing the words 'consolidation' with unsurprising frequency from...

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Putting a value on experience

Don’t tell HR but… I was sitting with a senior...

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Customer service is dead

Over breakfast with an old industry colleague we were discussing...

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Most marketing print tenders are not worth the paper they are printed on

7 things to do about it The cost I have...