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Moving away from Big Tech?

At the start of this year, the Netherlands Court of Audit (NL: Rekenkamer) published a report about the 'Dutch central government in the cloud'. The Court acknowledges that leveraging cloud services can increase efficiency and improve service…
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Research into the effect of CSRD on SMEs

On 26 February, the European Commission presented an omnibus regulation for the CSRD. This new regulation bundles and streamlines existing regulations, which should make it easier for companies to comply with sustainability guidelines. The…
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Due Diligence

For me, 2024 was a full, fun and educational year. In various roles (project leader, researcher and advisor) I performed a double materiality analysis, co-wrote an annual report, held workshops, conducted research, wrote an article and advised…
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Social return and the CSRD

Some time ago, I received this question from InterPactum with a request to host a workshop on it at the National Knowledge Network on Social Return. Specifically, the question was: "What does the CSRD entail, and how does it influence social…
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Public procurement and the CSRD

This issue about the relationship between public procurement and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) arises regularly as the CSRD is gradually introduced from 2024. Many companies are now busy preparing for the CSRD. What…
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Circular Facility Management

What does the circular future of facility management look like and what strategies can you implement towards that future? Together with Rob Klinkert and Monica Sanchez Groeneweg, I gave a presentation on this during the PIANOo conference on…
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CSR annual plan

At the beginning of 2023, I became self-employed and also a member of the Happy Planet Professionals (HPP). This is an association of socially conscious independent professionals. Comparable to MVO Nederland, but for self-employed people and…
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Guest lecture on CSRD and purchasing

What is the relationship between purchasing and the CSRD? I was asked to give a guest lecture on this subject to students of the minor purchasing management at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. After a short introduction to the CSRD,…
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What sourcing, CSRD and CSDDD have in common

What do Sourcing and Sustainability (and especially the CSRD and the CSDDD) have in common? That question was central to a workshop that Erik and I facilitated together during a theme meeting of the independent professionals (ZP-group) of Sourcing…
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Lean Agile Procurement

When starting as a freelancer, people warned me that I might get stuck. Some colleagues at the time were afraid that my development might come to a halt. Without the R&D back-up of a company or corporation, how would I come up with new ideas? It…
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From cost to value

Outsourcing has been around for some time now. After the mega deals in the late nineties, the industry developed quite a bit. Deals became smaller, engagement are now mostly multi-vendor, in some cases with a prime vendor responsible for service…
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Compliance and Integrity

The company I work for is making headlines in the national newspapers over the past couple of months and not all for the right reasons. A settlement to avoid legal procedures in a case about bribing Middle East government officials, signing…