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Strategic sourcing and the rise of co-creation

According to an African proverb: ‘If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together’.  In strategic sourcing, the rise...

Adopting a Collaborative Procurement Model

Introduction The traditional approach to procurement often involves an adversarial dynamic between buyers and suppliers, leading to lengthy...

Embracing Innovation: The Advantages of Skipping the Tender Process

Introduction The conventional procurement and sourcing methods typically involve a lengthy and costly tender process. However, an...

The point of enterprise architecture is NOT enterprise architecture

I spend some time each week looking at research and communities of practice discussing all things architecture - in particular enterprise...

The digital-first responder: meet the CIOs on the front line

“Whilst CIOs have always needed to lead technology change, the goals have shifted greatly during and post Covid. Organisations need...

Re-evaluating Procurement Success: Looking Beyond Cost Savings

In the realm of procurement and sourcing, the value of teams has traditionally been measured by the cost savings they achieve at the moment...

Rethinking Procurement: Shifting from Cost to Value for Greater Success

Traditional procurement methods have long emphasised cost as the primary factor for awarding contracts, with other considerations given...

Inflation, Interest Rates, and Increasing Costs - Navigating Complexities

As businesses and individuals alike face the challenges of rising costs, it is important to understand the root causes behind these...

The importance of diversity in driving transformational change

We’ve all read recent articles from McKinsey, Gartner, Forbes and HBR about how diversity and innovation are closely linked and how diverse...

How Multi Disciplinary Teams deliver successful transformation

I recently presented at an event in Dublin focused on teams delivering digital transformation and it was great to hear from technology...

From Passive to Active Metadata Management

In our previous article on metadata, we explored what it actually is and how you could use it to add value to your organisation’s...

Metadata in the enterprise, what it is and why you should care

Metadata may just be the biggest business resource you’ve never heard of. So, what is it, and why do you need to pay attention to the way...

Data Management 101

For some time now, more and more organisations seem to have been recognising the importance of data. Businesses generate, receive and...

Best Workplace for Women 2022!

Peru Consulting has been officially named a 2022 UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Women! The 2022 UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Women list was...

Meet our new Peruvian: Emma Shepley

Excited to welcome Emma Shepley as Talent Coordinator to Peru Consulting. Emma is CIPD 5 qualified and brings over 20 years’ expertise in...

Meet our new Peruvian: Paul Sykes

We are delighted to welcome Paul Sykes to the Peru Consulting family. Paul has a wealth of knowledge and experience in IT Service...

What are the benefits of migrating to a digital network?

BT’s decision to switch off PSTN services in December 2025, presents an opportunity to better understand the limitations of PSTN networks...

Why should you worry about the Big BT Switch Off?

BT has announced plans to switch off all Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) services, that has been the bedrock of business...

Building a Strong Data Foundation for Strategic Initiatives

“Data is an strategic asset”, “Use data to drive digital transformation”, “Become a data-driven business”. These are just some of the...

Meet our Peruvian: David Catterall

I became a Peruvian in June 2021 hoping to join a friendly, supportive organisation who could help me develop my career. I quickly learned...

Benefits and Pitfalls of Outsourcing

What do we mean by outsourcing? Outsourcing refers to the practice where an organisation contracts another organisation to provide a...

My 2022 Mile Journey

Race the Distance (‘RTD’) was an organisation created to motivate everyone to participate in exercise, by any means, to improve their...

What is a Digital Operating Model?

Digital Transformation has led many organisations to review their business strategy and technology operating model, to drive enhanced...

Supply Side Series - What do customers expect from their suppliers?

What do we want? (We’re not sure) When do we want it? (Yesterday!) If you have ever worked in IT you know there are IT people and there are...

Meet our Peruvian: Ngaire Guzzetti

I am a strategic procurement and end to end sourcing expert and have gained experience in a range of sectors including Charity, Education,...

Supply Side Series - How to optimise a benchmarking process

There has been an unremitting focus on benchmarking by many sourcing professionals for a number of years, with a spotlight on the necessity...

Supply Side Series - How to stand out from the competition

As we see a rise in political instability, economic turmoil and environmental volatility for all businesses it is necessary to not only...

DORA: Digital Operational Resilience Act Impact & Actions

As a financial institution what does the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) regulation mean for you? And how do these fit in with...

Mental Health - Stress Awareness

April has been recognised as ‘Stress Awareness Month’ since 1992 in a bid to increase public awareness on the topic. Thirty years on,...

The first step in our carbon neutral journey

The UK has committed to reducing greenhouse emissions to net zero by 2050[1], so all organisations need to look closely at how their...

International Womens Day 2022

When I first heard about International Women’s Day (IWD), a few years ago now, I have to say, I wasn’t supportive. It all felt a bit...

Volunteering at a COVID-19 Vaccination Centre

In January 2020, over two years ago, a life changing virus began spreading across the world, and humanity found itself in the midst of a...

How Risk Management helps your GDPR Compliance

GDPR and Risk Management are synonymous with each other, and traditional risk management approaches may not be appropriate in terms of...

Meet our new Peruvian: Lorna Jones

Kicking off 2022 by welcoming Lorna Jones to our Peru Consulting team! Lorna is an experienced commercial IT professional with excellent...

Winter Activity Challenge

With the night’s drawing in, and the uncertainty of the ongoing impact of COVID this winter, Principal Consultants Tom Knight and Simon...

Supplier Management Framework

Supplier management is the process that ensures that as a minimum the expected value is received for the investment that an organisation...

Supplier Management is more important than ever

Supplier management has moved beyond just ensuring contracts support business needs. The most effective organisations today focus on...

We're Officially A Great Place to Work

Pandemic events have impacted the personal and working lives of every individual around the world as well as for everyone at Peru...

What is IR35 and how does it impact contractors and smaller consultancies?

IR35 stands for ‘Inland Revenue Press Release no. 35’, which was issued in 1999 – this is not new! It relates to ‘Countering [tax]...

How to Build a Data-Driven Enterprise

There are many articles on becoming a data-driven business but turning that desire into a realistic goal stumps many organisations. As...

Building an Automation Centre of Excellence in FTSE100

RPA is tactical, Automation should be strategic Tactical automation such as RPA isn’t necessarily short term but monitoring tactical...

What opportunities might exist in your business for Automation?

It’s quite common to associate Automation with cost saving programmes and whilst there are certainly opportunities to disrupt your...

What do we mean by Intelligent Automation?

Intelligent Automation, ‘hyper automation’, ‘cognitive process automation’, ‘robotics’, or just plain ‘automation’ can all describe the...

Supplier Selection: Step by Step Process

Selecting the most appropriate supplier, be it of services or technology, can be a minefield if you do not have an effective supplier...

Northern Lights IT Advisory Services for NE Businesses

The North East of England has long been a hotbed of innovation. In 1825, the Stockton and Darlington railway – the world’s first railway to...

Challenges for Mid-Market Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation key to Business Strategy A report last year by accountants Grant Thornton highlighted that almost 9 out 10...

Peru Consulting announce new partnership with Brooklyn Vendor Assurance

Peru Consulting is delighted to announce our new partnership with Brooklyn Vendor Assurance (Brooklyn). With Peru’s deep experience of...

Introducing Peru's "IT Advisory as a Service"

Supporting SME’s to maximise their investment in digital technology A Challenging Time for SME Businesses A recent report from the...

World Earth Day 2021: New Normal

In the week of World Earth Day 2021, we begin our journey with independent environmental consultancy Carbon Footprint Ltd to support us in...

Strengthening Relationships During Disruptive Times

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” This quote from the famous industrialist Henry...

Legal IT: Automate and Optimise for Competitive Advantage

We live in a world of automation, and by and large this has brought significant benefits to sectors such as manufacturing and logistics,...

Legal IT: Build a strong data foundation, reap the rewards

It is widely acknowledged that “data is the new oil”. Ever since Gartner analyst Doug Laney defined big data as three dimensional (volume,...

Responsive Law firms forge ahead

Many businesses are resistant to change, but none are more set in their ways than firms in the legal sector. In a time of such huge...

IT for Law: Challenges 2020

Successful businesses embrace change in order to grow and thrive. Under normal circumstances a business will implement change in order to...

Transformation & Optimisation: Introducing our Cost Optimisation Service

Our highly-experienced consultants work hands-on as part of your team to deliver focused cost reviews that identify potential savings and...

It's all in the Data!

If you are over a certain age, you probably remember using cameras containing film. Because of cost you would take a limited number of...

Bid Support - The size of the prize and bidding guidelines

Take a look below at Peru Consulting’s key insights for IT Suppliers and Service Providers who are looking to gain a larger share of the...

Business at the speed of light - Interview with Future Processing

Peru Consulting’s Steve Watson, was recently interviewed by Future Processing’s Michal Grela about his recent 3-part article “Business At...

Together Alone – Going forward to work in the new normal

“We like to give people the freedom to work where they want, safe in the knowledge that they have the drive and expertise to perform...

Bid Better Business - Part 2

Find out how to develop compelling tender responses that resonate with customers by reading an extract from Peru’s Consulting’s “guide to...

Battle of the Bids: The Fight for Hubris Hill

A multinational IT and management consultancy company were the incumbent supplier for IT Application Development & Maintenance (ADM)...

Do Interconnected SME Ecosystems Drive Future Business Success?

My 2014 article “Corporate Culture & the Bottom-line” ended with the following prediction: “The digital revolution is changing many aspects...

Remote zone working - Coming to a beach near you?

In our earlier article “Together Alone: Moving Forward to Work in the New Normal” Jo Cribbin touched on the possibilities provided by Agile...

Battle of the Bids: Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition

A global IT services and telecommunications provider was involved in a tender with a large Spanish public sector client. After progressing...

Battle of the Bids: The Slumbering Giant

A large financial services organisation issued an invitation to tender for the implementation of a range of mobility solutions in order to...

Bid Better Business - Part 1

Today Peru Consulting launches the first in our new video log series offering tips and insights on how Suppliers and Service Providers can...

Are you Cyber-Nimble?

The trend was already in place and the Covid-19 pandemic response has accelerated it immensely: working from home for some or all of the...

Supply Chain Risk Assessment War Stories – Liquidation Harbour

In January 2018, a British construction and facilities management services company entered into what became the largest ever trading...

Effective Supply Chain Risk Management in Crisis

For many organisations, Supply Chain Risk Management has been an undervalued activity, perhaps part of a wider supplier classification...

Top 5 Supply Chain Risk Assessment Pitfalls to Avoid

In these times of disruption it is more important than ever that businesses carefully review the risks in their supply chain in a...

Supply Chain Risk Assessment War Stories – The Battle of Utilityberg

In the mid-nineties, a large UK-based utilities company providing drinking water and waste-water services entered into a contract for the...

Specialist Homes of the Future

So, we are having one of the best summer’s in living memory which was proceeded by one of the best spring’s in living memory. Covid-19...

Introducing our Supply Chain Risk Assesment service

Peru brings years of commercial & supplier experience allied with a deep knowledge of risk assessment methods to help clients identify the...

Introducing our Bid Support service

Peru brings years of commercial experience allied with a deep knowledge of the IT software, IT consulting services, managed services and...

Endless Contracts: New Normal

Talking to our channel partners at Future Processing, they, and I suspect many others, have spotted that IT buyers are showing marked...

Forza Alex

The weekend brought the desperately sad news that the former Formula 1 racing driver, Alex Zanardi, had been involved in a handbike...

Heeding Our Own Advice

“What Customers Want” is a consultancy that heeds its own advice. Find out how we are doing that at Peru Consulting in the areas of...

Meet our new Peruvian: Simon Downes

We are delighted to welcome Simon Downes to our family at Peru Consulting. Simon brings over 15 years of experience as a data specialist,...

Business at the Speed of Light: Part 3 – Disruption

Opportunity and Threat If we accept the premise that “business at the speed of light” offers up a vast array of business possibilities, we...

Business at the Speed of Light: Part 2 – Evolution

Business Exploitation How businesses exploit the opportunity of fast fibre broadband is predicated on a number of variables including the...

We Are Family: Folding@Home

At Peru Consulting we are family! Three generations of Peru laptops folding proteins while we work, two generations of Peru mobiles...

Business at the Speed of Light: Part 1 – Revolution

This article was originally written some 6 years ago but never published at the time. The original intent of the article was to help...

Taking the pain out of data centre migration

In these challenging times, as organisations seek to become more efficient, some will revisit the issue that they may well have wrestled...

The Seven Deadly Sins of Major Contract Procurement (and how to avoid them)

Of all the Latin terminology much beloved of lawyers and contract managers, the phrase that resonates most for me is “Caveat Emptor” which...

Managing Collaborative Relationships In a Crisis: My Five Key Takeaways

It was a privilege to be asked to be a guest panellist at the recent Global Sourcing Association webinar, “Managing Collaborative...

What Customers Want - How to Thrive in Times of Disruption

“If you know what women want, you can rule!” – This quote from the hilarious, if somewhat politically incorrect (against men!) film “What...

Lean In Circle

Today, we held our inaugural Lean In Circle (via video call of course!). With our ever growing team of fantastic Peruvian ladies, we want...

Streamlining application portfolios for efficiency

It doesn’t take much to convince IT professionals that it is a good idea to have an applications and system portfolio that is optimised:...

So long, farewell to the Contract Market? Taking the Ire out of IR35

“Raindrops on roses, and whiskers on kittens. Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens. Brown paper packages tied up with strings....

Getting the most out of your cloud investment

IT Leaders have it tough! Have you ever seen a cloud services billing and activity report from AWS, Azure or Google Cloud? If it’s for your...

Security by design, not only necessary but a driver of loyalty

We are all aware that securing our organisations people, assets and data is a fundamental requirement for all organisations today. But when...

Cradle to grave contract management

Given that most organisations are often critically dependent on IT suppliers to underpin their business operations, a lack of understanding...

Taking the pain out of ERP upgrades

Implementing a new ERP solution, or upgrading a legacy system, can be a painful process. Peru’s Ian Robinson offers some helpful tips to...

Meet our new Peruvian: Simon Hughes

We are delighted to welcome Simon Hughes to our family at Peru Consulting. Simon brings over 30 years of experience covering a broad range...

IT Service Management: time to take back control!

The days of a major single outsourcing partner for IT Services are over. With increasing numbers of organisations multi-sourcing to a...

Robot wars: know your rights when it comes to recruitment

Sue Shellenbarger’s article on the increasing trend of recruiters deploying robotic screening of job applications gives rise to an...

Open banking: advance or retreat?

Whether you’re on the side of deregulation or tougher oversight of financial services, there’s no denying that the latest regulatory...