High-performing organisations tend to have fewer suppliers. In fact, highly-effective procurement departments have 78%* fewer suppliers than typical companies. But why is this so important?

Procurement teams have a massive impact on the foundation of your business – and a strategic, consolidated approach to procurement can lead to cost-savings, less admin, more accurate reporting, streamlined processes and better cost control.

Modern eCommerce systems have made it much easier for managers, directors and procurement teams to track purchase behaviour. In the current climate this kind of visibility and drive for cost efficiency is of paramount importance.

In this webinar you’ll hear from a panel of experts as they share best practice and helpful tools to evaluate and re-define these processes within your organisation.

Join our panel of experts as we discuss:

• The simple steps you can take to drive efficiency in procurement
• How to consolidate your eProcurement
• Customising the procurement process from pricing to product portfolio
• Developing support for your professional home workers

Join our panel of experts as we discuss:

• Our predictions for the next steps of remote working
• What is the digital workforce?
• How you can enhance your remote network

In this webinar you’ll hear from our panel of experts and leading Microsoft speakers as they guide you through taking your remote working practices to the next level, focusing on your digital workforce and the technology and solutions you can put in place to achieve flexibility and agility. Plus you’ll have the opportunity to ask the questions that matter to you, in our live Q&A.

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In recent months we’ve seen monumental change implemented at speed, with very little notice. Digital transformation, that previously may have taken years, now needs to be embraced with a new urgency.

As attention turns to the next 6-12 months, the need for organisations to be dynamic, flexible and agile is evident. Whether it is this challenge or the next challenge there is a clear requirement to operate ‘business as usual’ through a complex and frequently changing environment.

The office no longer needs to be a location, visited daily with one specific function. They’ll become more fluid, smarter offices which act as a hybrid space designed to unify people under your brand.

The good news is there’s a wealth of technology solutions available, but to fully benefit, you need to ensure you’re making the right decisions. This comes from a true understanding of the requirements of your people and how they need to work. Our experts will share insights on where to start with this process, the current landscape and how to ensure you implement the right technology solutions, effectively. Solutions that are scalable, flexible and secure.

In this webinar you’ll gain an understanding of the main challenges for organisations right now, the solutions available and how to identify which of these will be the most effective investment for your business. This will be vital to ensuring your organisation goes forward in a position of strength, better than before, as the way we all work once again evolves.

Our panel of experts discussed:

• What are the business challenges organisations are facing?
• How is the current scenario impacting organisations and their budgets?
• What is the industry saying (CBI, Gartner, IDC) for high priority spend?
• The technologies you need to invest in and why these are so important to you
• What the new environment means for your IT budget
• People, adoption, productivity and security should be at the centre of decision-making
• How you can support and empower your people in adapting to the latest technologies

As business leaders face the challenge of getting back to the workplace and what that should look like, now is the time to consider the opportunity to reimagine and move their business forward to where they believe it should be.

Leaders should seek to harness and cultivate the new mindset their organisation has adopted and displayed in recent months. It was a willingness to embrace change that enabled organisations to move to mass remote working in such a short space of time. This same mindset can, therefore, be the enabler for new initiatives and opportunities. As the future will require a workforce that is agile, flexible and adaptable.

The office no longer needs to be a location, visited daily with one specific function. They’ll become more fluid, smarter offices which act as a hybrid space designed to unify people under your brand.

In this webinar you will gain knowledge on gaining a collective insight, to enable you to build a transformed organisation that will inspire employees, build trust with buyers and align Corporate Social Responsibility with business purpose.

Our panel of experts discussed:

• The future workplace - a hub of community and inspiration
• Bringing together HR, Facilities and IT
• The key challenges for the employee and the employer
• A people-centric strategy that includes people, place, process and technology

In recent months we’ve seen monumental change implemented at speed. Digital transformation, that previously may have taken years, now needs to be embraced with a new urgency.

As attention turns to the longer term, the need for organisations to be dynamic, flexible and agile is evident. There is a very real need to operate ‘business as usual’ through a complex and changing external environment.

The good news is there’s a wealth of technology solutions available, but to fully benefit, you need to ensure you’re making the right decisions. This comes from a true understanding of the requirements of your people and how they need to work. Our experts will share insights on where to start with this process, the current landscape and how to ensure you implement the right technology solutions, effectively. Solutions that are scalable, flexible and secure.

In this webinar you’ll gain an understanding of the main challenges for organisations right now, the solutions available and which of these will be the most effective investment for your business in the next 12 months. This will be vital to ensuring your organisation goes from strength to strength, as the way we all work once again evolves.

Our panel of experts discussed:

• The changing technology landscape for businesses across sectors and size
• What the new environment means for your IT budget
• The technologies you need to invest in and why these are so important to you
• Areas to avoid spending on
• How you can support and empower your people in adapting to the latest technologies

Launching for its eighth consecutive year in November 2020, the 30% Club cross-company mentoring programme is a proven, practical and powerful way to achieve greater gender balance at senior levels within organisations, in addition to delivering on gender pay gap narrowing and broader diversity and inclusion goals. At this special event, hosted by Moving Ahead, learn about the impact, benefits and how you can get involved in the 30% Club cross-company mentoring programme 2020/21. This programme brings together over 30 sectors and 100 companies each year including HSBC, EY, Centrica, The British Army, PwC, Santander and Slaughter and May.

We will be joined by fellow leaders from the 30% Club community as well as Phil Keoghan Ricoh UK CEO and Nicola Downing, Ricoh Europe COO who will share their experience, learnings and motivation for being involved both personally and for their organisations. Moving Ahead will present how the scheme works and the impact they have seen.

Special guest Ann Cairns, Executive Vice Chair at Mastercard and Global Chair 30% Club, will talk about the 30% Club’s strategy, how it’s evolving and how this cross-company mentoring programme is a core lever within this. Kirk Vallis, Global Head of Creative Capability Development at Google will explore the role of mentoring in creativity and innovation.

Don't let the lack of access to employee records limit decision making while your organisation works remotely.

Join us to understand how you can fully digitise all your staff on-boarding, record management and leaver processes.

You can ensure all your data is accurately and securely delivered to your HR and Payroll systems.

If you have staff records kept over paper, email and PDF formats, then you’ll learn how to ensure you get full access to all your records, from any location, reducing the compliance risks such as GDPR and daily issues associated with manual interventions.

Our panel of experts discussed:

• During the webinar we will identify the manual processes that are not viable any longer during this remote working environment
• You will see how cloud technology can capture all your required staff information, including signatures and proof of identity and all with a secure method to access all the information remotely

As we’ve moved to a world where working from home is a necessity, change has been implemented at speed and this has brought its own unique set of challenges. Many have risen to this in unparalleled circumstances. Now is the time to review, adjust and plan for the future to ensure this adaption is scalable and flexible - it’s never been more important to focus on your people and their wellbeing.

Recently the IDC European IT Buyer Sentiment Survey revealed that 38% of organisations supported remote working Pre-March-2020. Following Boris Johnson’s announcement introducing the nationwide lockdown that number swiftly shifted to 89%. While necessity and technology has allowed this trend to grow and dramatically expand, no one ever expected to be working this way 5 days a week for months on end.​

So how do you ensure your people and teams can balance life and work in unusual circumstances?

Our panel of experts discussed:

• Working from home wellbeing
• Top tips for remote working success
• How you can help your remote workers
• What duty of care of employees working from home need
• What our customers are telling us about how they have adapted
• How organisations can ensure they are listening to their employees

How to digitally capture all hard copy mail coming into your business allowing remote users instant & secure access to information from anywhere.

As remote working becomes business as usual, don’t let the lack of access to important & critical inbound postal mail that arrives at your offices each day impact your remote workers and ultimately your business.

Join this webinar to learn how you can maintain business continuity by digitally capturing, indexing and securely distributing all your postal mail enabling every remote worker access to documents from any location, using any device, so they can efficiently complete their work.

Our panel of experts discussed:

Uncover the risks your business faces by (1) not taking any action (2) forwarding postal mail to remote workers (3) Scanning postal mail to email. Learn and preview a simple demonstration showcasing a fully tested, scaleable & affordable solution that can be remotely deployed to ensure your organisation is fully compliant with regulatory legislation such as GDPR whilst maximising your remote workers capabilities.

Beyond video conferencing technologies, there is so much more to be aware of in order to help with general wellbeing and keeping productive for remote workers. Knowing where to start again when surrounded by so many different options is almost impossible.

Our panel of experts will simplify the complex environment of IT remote working technologies, showing how networks now operating across many homes in the UK can keep productive.

Our panel of experts discussed:

• Our insights into new remote working challenges and preparing for an office return
• The latest emerging IT technologies for remote working
• Wellbeing of people working from home
• Common pitfalls of managing a remote working network
• How to best prepare for returning to the office environment
• Helping with short term business cash flow challenges
• The value in conducting an assessment ahead of making an investment

New working practices, remote networks and increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks mean our data is more at risk than ever before.

Our panel of experts discussed:

• Our insight into how IT security risks are changing
• The latest emerging technologies for IT security
• Human error and what this means for your data
• The devastating impact that a ransomware attack could have on your business, with a live simulation

Productivity, cost-savings and safety – three key KPIs of any warehouse, distribution or logistics facility. As business adjusts to a new normal, the protection of employees’ health will remain at the top of every company’s priorities. Here we explore how smart technology can bring multiple benefits to your operation and the people working there:

Our panel of experts discussed:

The daily challenge of managing the distribution of hand-held scanners and other assets:

• Expensive equipment is frequently lost and damaged
• Staff time wasted in collecting and returning devices
• Addressing this to improve staff efficiency and accountability of devices
• We identify five key challenges and one solution.

Employees, suppliers and customers arriving on-site with a fever could be costly:

• Thermal imaging camera technology is quick and easy to install as well as being a non-contact solution
• Accurate, fast and multi-person (up to 30 people in a crowd) detection
• Customer-managed so able to form part of GDPR process
• Technology recognised by leading health authorities
• Reassuring for management and employees to know potential risks can be mitigated, adding to the resilience of an organisation’s operations.
• Learn how these topics can help you ensure business continuity and digital workplace transformation, even in the most challenging times.

Despite numerous remote technologies at our disposal, if you don’t have an approved strategy for remote working then you run the risk of your people being unproductive and your business insecure. What’s more, a centralised strategy around remote working can transform your operations in ways that are just not possible with a disjointed, piecemeal approach.

Our panel of experts discussed:

• The business case and value of an integrated remote working strategy
• How best to support your people in the digital workplace
• Video conferencing and collaboration tools that are right for your needs
• Protecting your business from cybercrime and Ransomware
• The role of digital assessments and your agile working capability
• Information mobility through digital document management and workflow automation
• Business continuity derived from managed print, and scanning and archiving
• Electronic and managed mail solutions for critical correspondence
• Approved eCommerce platforms to control and manage consumable spend

Learn how these topics and this invaluable approach can help you ensure business continuity and digital workplace transformation, even in the most challenging times.