In 2015, in a bid to help small & medium sized enterprises (SMEs) the Cabinet Office gave itself 5 years to expand #procurement from SMEs to a third of all Govt. purchasing of goods & services.

The deadline was then extended to 2022, but the proportion of procurement from SMEs has actually remained broadly static at around 25%.

Only the the Dept. of Cuture Media & Sport beat the target making nearly half of all purchases from SMEs

Govt. lacks a real plan & #corporates 'play the game' better!

Industry standard boards along with corporate consortiums (and priesthoods) function as benevolent cartels.

#industry #standards #corporates #consortiums #clergy #church #state #cartels #plazas #competition #rulemaking #sensemaking

👀 Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with #investors and #corporates, check it out here: https://discover.dealflow.eu/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/InnoRadarEU/status/1635915228566233089

📢 Have you heard of @Dealfloweu’s Multicorporate Matchmaking Events?
👥These events aim at fostering collaboration between EU-funded #innovators and #Corporates based in the EU.
🩺 For our 1st edition’s Health Day we will introduce 15 pitching companies to @Medtronic!

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/InnoRadarEU/status/1632659449235005440

Why is it becoming so hard to #predict the #future? Right from #economists getting "it" wrong to #corporates finding it difficult to anticipate what's next, the list of #forecaster #nightmares is large.

As #yogiberra said, "The future isn't what it used to be!"

Indeed, if #tomorrow comes!!

https://rammohansusarla.in/2022/04/16/if-tomorrow-comes-why-is-it-becoming-so-hard-to-anticipate-whats-next/

I dont think that the out of the box #Mastodon or #activitypub solutions really exist for #corporates, #media or #publishers yet though. Id be looking for features like integration to editorial systems, stats and instance crawling features, perhaps subscription capabilities among other things.
@latrive

@claesdevreese @jeremybowers @vtraag

RT @AZO_space: Contribute to #future #European #spacecraft! 🚀 #CASSINImatchmaking matches #startups & #corporates with #investors in the space sector. Boost #EUspace! 🙌

Discover the current #OpenCall now!
👉 https://ow.ly/KQuV50LbTCG

@defis_eu @EU4Space @EU_Growth @ESA_CommGateway

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/defis_eu/status/1609492245467758593

Is it any surprise that #hybridwork was named #wordoftheyear by Forbes , endorsed by Glassdoor echoed by the Financial Times.
As the #newworldofwork becomes the #newnormal, #corporates have to necessarily #adapt and #adjust to the nouveau #work #models.

The combination of #workfromhome and #workfromoffice is what more #firms ought to embrace in the #postpandemicworkplace.

It is "jarring" to note that #elonmusk continues to "order" their #employees #backtooffice.

https://rammohansusarla.in/2021/12/06/are-hybrid-work-models-the-new-normal-to-help-us-navigate-the-brave-new-world-of-work/

20 years ago we worked in co-located teams and got a huge amount done with regular check ins against a project plan. Now we threw all that out and yet Agile gets launched which talks about co-located teams making regular check ins against a plan..... And real life is that it is just micromanagement hell and it's the slowest possible way to work.

#agile #corporates

Working from home today

The office booking tool has 242 desks and 142 parking spaces for around 550 people. The office was leased at the end of the Pandemic in a town far from any of the 3 closed offices and with no public transport.

16 desks are in use.

Companies make some extraordinary choices at times and in this case it proves that group think is utter bunk.

#office #workfromhome #corporates

"...it’s also easy to game because of the counterfactual behind the calculations. How can anyone be sure that the construction of a solar farm prevented the advent of a coal project?"

#CarbonNeutral #Renewables #NetZero #Corporates #Coal #ClimateChange #CO2 #Emissions #GreenWashing

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-carbon-offsets-renewable-energy/?leadSource=uverify%20wall

The habit of #crossposting between #Twitter & #Mastodon, especially #RTs, the culture of #selfpromotion & constant posting of self publication #links is seen by many as "reinventing Twitter on someone else’s platform" & disregarding the local culture. Many existing #Mastodon users see this as an invasion from "Contiki tourists" rather than #refugees. This affects particularly accounts of #organisations (#NGOs, #corporates) and #media, when entire servers got blocked in protest. Cue journa.host

#corporates and #institutions fretting over #BirdsiteMeltdown: why not start your own mastodon protocol server? It's always been a risk sitting and building digital foundations on 'free' services

RT @defis_eu: With 4⃣ brand new topics, the #CASSINImatchmaking goes into a second round for 2023

Discover the benefits for #StartUPs, #corporates & #investors being matched within the programme 🤝

Together we boost your #EUSpace business 🚀
👉 https://www.cassini.eu/matchmaking/topics#newtopics

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/defis_eu/status/1589963091839549440

With 4⃣ brand new topics, the #CASSINImatchmaking goes into a second round for 2023

Discover the benefits for #StartUPs, #corporates & #investors being matched within the programme 🤝

Together we boost your #EUSpace business 🚀
👉 http://cassini.eu/matchmaking/topics#newtopics

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/defis_eu/status/1589896733689249793

RT @defis_eu: With 4⃣ brand new topics, the #CASSINImatchmaking goes into a second round for 2023

Discover the benefits for #StartUPs, #corporates & #investors being matched within the programme 🤝

Together we boost your #EUSpace business 🚀
👉 https://www.cassini.eu/matchmaking/topics#newtopics

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_EISMEA/status/1589902008525672450

RT @defis_eu: With 4⃣ brand new topics, the #CASSINImatchmaking goes into a second round for 2023

Discover the benefits for #StartUPs, #corporates & #investors being matched within the programme 🤝

Together we boost your #EUSpace business 🚀
👉 https://www.cassini.eu/matchmaking/topics#newtopics

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_HaDEA/status/1589931241545293825

#Corporates sometimes talk with the fakest of accents and personality. You might think you are getting away with it, but you aren’t! 😒

RT @defis_eu: Next week, we will be in #Lisbon 🇵🇹, at #WebSummit

We will present #CASSINImatchmaking, an initiative that connects space #startups, #corporates & #investors for🆕business opportunities

Those attending and wanting to meet up on 4 November can register at https://cassini-matchmaking.b2match.io/signup

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/defis_eu/status/1586250309877350401

Next week, we will be in #Lisbon 🇵🇹, at #WebSummit

We will present #CASSINImatchmaking, an initiative that connects space #startups, #corporates & #investors for🆕business opportunities

Those attending and wanting to meet up on 4 November can register at http://cassini-matchmaking.b2match.io/signup

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/defis_eu/status/1586008702125223937