Given the costs involved in finding good job candidates, HR is under pressure to create induction programmes that deliver quick results. Stefan Stern explains how to make first impressions count. Talent management isn't something you start to think about when an employee has been in the job a few months....
FIRSTPERSON What if almost everything you thought you knew about business had to be revised and even reinvented from scratch? This is what it must be like to be an investment banker at the moment presuming that he or she has still got a job, that is....
FIRSTPERSON Now that it's autumn and all that nonsense about sunshine and contentment can be forgotten again for another seven months, life at work feels normal once more. How do I know this? The invitations have started coming in - downturn or no downturn - to attend...
I think it was hearing John Humphrys' voice again first thing the other morning that did it for me. Nothing against the great man - superb, fearless interviewer, tenacious in the pursuit of bullshitters and all that - but it did just remind me: autumn is a comin'. August,...
FIRSTPERSON Boy oh boy oh boy. Things must be even worse than I thought. Senior managers at the US investment bank Merrill Lynch are going to have to cut down on their use of private jets. Only when there is clearly no alternative means of travel will...
Continuing the institute's initiative to raise awareness of procurement among business leaders, Liz Lees, head of PR at CIPS, arranged for CEO Simon Sperryn to be interviewed by three journalists. They were Delphine Strauss, economics reporter for the Financial Times, Stefan Stern, management writer for the FT who is...
FIRSTPERSON Question: what sort of procurement officer struggles to procure and retain decent taff? Answer: most of them. But there is no shame in that. Recruiters everywhere are struggling with the same challenge. Welcome to the famous, and deadly, "war for talent". The shrapnel is flying...
FIRSTPERSON You are never alone with a BlackBerry. The thrilling little beep and rumble of that magical machine tells you that you matter, that you have friends - or colleagues, anyway - and that you are plugged in and wired for sound (and vision too, of course)....
FIRSTPERSON First, the good news. The coming economic slowdown means the work done by purchasers is going to rise in importance in the next few months. The bad news is the demand for results coming from the top are unlikely to be very subtle, probably along...
FIRSTPERSON The recent appalling pictures from Tibet, amid preparations for the Beijing Olympics, were a reminder that, however attractive the cost savings on offer, China remains a problematic country to do business with. Smart investors are exercising caution about the alleged fortunes that will "inevitably" be...
FIRSTPERSON Outgoing BAA chief executive Stephen Nelson should enjoy the opening ceremony for Heathrow's new Terminal 5 later this month. (His chairman Sir Nigel Rudd will be standing alongside him come the great day. But Sir Nigel has already made his feelings plain about the soon-to-be-ex...
FIRSTPERSON I retired hurt from the sex wars some time ago. It seemed like the sensible thing to do. I have hung up my lance please add your own joke here and settled down for a quiet life of respectable domesticity. Yes, I am one of...
FIRST PERSON I think there is a world market for maybe five computers," Thomas J. Watson, chairman emeritus of IBM, is supposed to have said in 1943. The precise wording is disputed. But it is the sort of quote that is "too good to check", as we...
How resilient are food supply chains? And what does the future hold for them? Academics and industry experts discuss the issues at a CIPS roundtable event PARTICIPANTS Stefan Stern is a Supply Management and Financial Times columnist and chaired the debate Helen Peck is senior...
FIRSTPERSON Sometimes you just can't win. A request comes in from a regulator who wants to see how you are managing your data. And this regulator, by the way, is the statutory body constantly on the look-out for waste and inefficiency. So what do you do?...
FIRST PERSON You see, boss, it was like this. The deal was hanging in the balance. And when Dimitri and Leonid said they weren't tired and wanted to see a bit more of London's famous West End, we felt we had to keep them company and look...
FIRSTPERSON The serious look on Alistair Darling's face as he made his Pre-Budget Report to parliament told us all we needed to know. The easy, fat years of generous public spending are over. We should brace ourselves for months of restraint. Poor man - if you...
[Stefan Stern] FIRSTPERSON It's embarrassing. Supply Management readers can procure almost anything these days, be it tangible goods or intangible professional services. Purchasing has never been more robust, more efficient, and more highly valued by senior management. But can you procure decent new staff? Can you heck....
FIRSTPERSON P ut this magazine down at once and get on with your work. What? You call that work? Well, I suppose in this era of the "knowledge economy" hoovering up information wherever you find it must count as constructive effort of some sort. Goodness knows...
Five years and 23 stores later, the local Starbucks operation is positioned for rapid expansion after parent company, Starbucks Coffee International, recently acquired back 95% of the Puerto Rico Starbucks operation from its original partner, reports Caribbean Business (June 28, 2007). This will enable Starbucks to...
Articles 2007-08-01
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