Organisations today operate in a world fraught with threats, including “script kiddies”, hackers, hacktivists and advanced persistent threats. Although these threats can be harmful to an enterprise, a potentially more devastating and anecdotally more likely threat is that of the malicious...

In industry today the majority of managers appear to be aware of the importance of the purchasing function in manufacturing organisations and of the need to secure supplies of materials at the best available prices. What is not well recognised, however, especially by the senior non‐purchasing...