In so many areas of life, behaviours in business can be a lag-follower of social and personal behaviours. Not so surprising, really, because it is obviously the same people who naturally take their social and personal behaviours into work.
We have said on a number of occasions that the Blog thinks that eprocurement is at last an idea whose time has come (or is coming!). A supportive indicator of underlying trends which are building up the impetus is the one we headline here.
As we (and UK citizens have been particularly zealous in shifting buying habits towards online activity) become increasingly familiar with identifying our requirements, sourcing, pricing and purchasing on line will our commercial attitudes to eprocurement change?
For more on the Mintel report see Euractiv’s article here: