Nic Boyde Head of Group Administration, HSBC

David took a failing eProcurement project with over-lofty ambitions and rammed through change and focus to not only bring the project (at that point looking like a GBP2m write-off), back on track, but also to re-consider expanding the scope once more. Everyone in HSBC Group  who was involved in ordering anything, whether it was a pencil, a biro or a company car, was added to a new eProcurement system based on Ariba that supplied from stock, or raised, invisibly back-orders that in turn might be filled, say, by eAuctions. First class result