MAY 2012
24 May 2012, London, £449/£499
This seminar encompasses four areas that are crucial for procurement professional to understand in depth; statutory implied terms; damages and compensation; exemption clauses and product liability.
The seminar is designed and conducted by two professional lawyers well-known to CIPS members, Professor Geoffrey Woodroffe and Graham Fuller.
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JUNE 2012
12–14 June, Manchester
This year Procurement for Housing Live will run alongside the CIH 2012 Exhibition. PfH Live is the biggest procurement event ever held for the social housing sector, reflecting a growing need to create efficiencies and cost savings in the tough economic climate.
PfH Live will be an essential event for everyone working in social housing who is involved in driving efficiency, from chief executives and finance directors to tenants. The event will look to other sectors such as government, health, education and the private sector to draw on their experiences for harnessing buying power in the social housing sector.
Through a series of FREE masterclass seminars, PfH Live will bring all this procurement best practice together to generate ideas and raise the bar in social housing.
Who should attend?
Social Housing Chief Executives, Finance Directors, Procurement Officers, Housing Officers and Tenants.
14 June, London, £449/£499
Supplier diversity is rapidly developing in the UK, and the advent of the Equality Act is adding further pressure on organisations to develop their approaches.
It is also important that your organisation should be addressing its supplier diversity strategy in the base case - because suppliers are part of your talent pool.
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19-20 June, London, £719/£799
Develop practical skills to draft robust contracts for services and goods. Learn from two experts – a solicitor and a barrister – bring to life the contract documents and leverage resilient supplier relationships.
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26 June, London, £643/£715
Based around the principles recommended by BS 8903 - the world’s first standard for sustainable procurement published in 2010 this brand new MasterClass will help you lead your business into a new era of sustainable procurement.
Facilitator Shaun McCarthy, Director of Action Sustainability and a leading expert in sustainable business will examine how to manage your supply chains in ways that offer long-term commercial value and competitive advantage.
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JULY 2012
3 July, London, £643/£715
Style your leadership – You may already be leading your organisation, the key challenge is to keep your leadership fresh, inspirational and relevant to your changing environment.
This one day MasterClass will allow you to develop your skills – match them to different situations and enhance the tool-box of techniques at your disposal to really make a difference in your business.
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SEPTEMBER 2012
19 September, London, £449/£499
Software agreements are perceived as devilishly complex. Supplier standard forms are notoriously one-sided, and it remains notoriously difficult to get a supplier to work with a customer standard form or purchase for all but the largest of deals.
Led by a technology lawyer with two decades of experience negotiating and drafting software procurement agreement, the course takes a hard look at the question of what is important and what can be "given away" with minimal risk.
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20 September, London, £449/£499
Procurement professionals face a software landscape that changes continually:
- New types of sales structure
- New styles of service provision
- New threats from unexpected quarters
- New forms of software agreement
This course has two goals: to focus on advanced topics encountered in medium-to-complex software projects, and to address some of the significant developments that have changed the business of software.
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OCTOBER 2012
2 October, London, £449/£499
Keep your knowledge up-to-date with the latest TUPE regulations in this highly topical seminar. All elements of the TUPE regulations are covered, with particular emphasis on their significance to procurement.
The impact of these regulations will be explained in a way that should clarify the key issues involved. The event also covers the question of risks between the client and the service provider(s) and the implications for outsourcing activities.
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10 October, £449/£499
This seminar will examine the process of contracting for ICT services, and review common aspects of ICT service agreements. As with other events in the “Commercial Approach” series the focus is on real issues that arise in a commercial environment. Some experience with ICT service arrangements will be helpful, but no experience is necessary.
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16 October, London, £449/£499
This highly informative seminar covers subjects such as:
- Direct sourcing - what are the key do's and don'ts?
- How can you save employment taxes and VAT when hiring temps and contractors?
- Best ways of dealing with the Agency Workers Regulations from 2011
- Replacing striking workers with agency workers: Can it be done without breaking the law?
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30 October, London, £449/£499
The European Procurement Directives affect most of the purchases undertaken by central and local government, universities, the health service and other public sector organisations.
This seminar provides you with an overall review of the subject, deals with the practical operation of the Directives, and reviews recent changes to the legislation including the new Remedies Directive.
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NOVEMBER 2012
6 November, London, £643/£715
Designed to stimulate personal growth and capability around influencing strategies, whether it be internal or external to the organisation.
This MasterClass provides a comprehensive overview of powerful behavioural tools that are regularly used by some of the most successful business people in the UK.
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13 November, London, £643/£715
Many procurement groups find it a tough battle to get their voice heard within there organisations. They are often involved too late, or even not at all. Companies still have a rather out-dated view of what procurement can do, and can see the function at best as administrators and at worst as obstructive and bureaucratic.
This MasterClass will give you the tools, techniques and insights on how to change that perspective, and to start being the real business partner that procurement can be.
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14 November, London, £643/£715
Perhaps the biggest strategic decision for an organisation is to define its boundary and scope of activity - “What do we do ourselves and what do we buy?”
This MasterClass will provide practical tools and proven approaches to solving this strategic dilemma. Building on extensive research from Cambridge University’s Institute for Manufacturing, this structured framework will deliver valuable insights applicable across service and manufacturing organisations in both the public and private sectors.
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21 November, London, £449/£499
Supplier diversity is rapidly developing in the UK, and the advent of the Equality Act is adding further pressure on organisations to develop their approaches.
It is also important that your organisation should be addressing its supplier diversity strategy in the base case - because suppliers are part of your talent pool.
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27 November, London, £643/£715
Based around the principles recommended by BS 8903 - the world’s first standard for sustainable procurement published in 2010 this brand new MasterClass will help you lead your business into a new era of sustainable procurement.
Facilitator Shaun McCarthy, Director of Action Sustainability and a leading expert in sustainable business will examine how to manage your supply chains in ways that offer long-term commercial value and competitive advantage.
29 November, London, £643/£715
Designed to stimulate personal growth and capability around influencing strategies, whether it be internal or external to the organisation. This MasterClass provides a comprehensive overview of powerful behavioural tools that are regularly used by some of the most successful business people in the UK.
