Procurement Transformation Archives

AOP Podcast Business Alignment Digitization Procurement Transformation

April 19, 2021

[Pod] Why Procurement Leaders Must Seize the Moment and Transform Their Function – A Mastermind LIVE Spring Panel Discussion

“We have processes and we have technology, but at the end of the day, it's about relationships. We have our…

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April 12, 2021

[Pod] Elevating Procurement’s Impact in a Distributed Organization w/ Robert Bonnar

“There is obviously great strength in being an expert. We should let experts talk. When there is someone with expertise,…

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March 29, 2021

[Pod] How Telecom Giant BT Drives the Bottom Line and Corporate Resiliency w/ Adam Brown

“We need to look to the future. Things are changing rapidly with the advances in AI, robotics, and machine learning.…

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AOP Podcast Category Management Procurement Transformation Sourcing & Contracting

February 1, 2021

[Pod] Getting a Grip on Your Long Tail Spend w/ Tom Cicale and Sameer Sharma

“It was difficult in the beginning because everyone was calling it ‘low value spend’ and I said, 'No, we’ve got…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Podcast Procurement Transformation

January 11, 2021

[Pod] Building World Class Procurement From Scratch w/ Jaime Robles

“At the end of the day, procurement is not about savings. It is about creating value that can be reflected…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Podcast Leadership Procurement Transformation

December 21, 2020

How Procurement Has Become The Catalyst For Enterprise Transformation w/ Chris Sawchuk and Keith Hausmann

"How can a sourcing process or a contracting process be reinvented to be agile? Agile isn’t measured in months. It…

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September 28, 2020

Developing Procurement’s Unique Selling Proposition w/ Juergen Scherer

“One of the key learnings I would apply to any supplier/customer or seller/buyer relationship is that every situation will have…

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July 20, 2020

Applying the Flywheel Effect to Procurement (Part 2)

“The flywheel approach drives a virtuous cycle of continuous procurement improvement and innovation. When you apply this to a category…

Philip Ideson

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July 13, 2020

Applying the Flywheel Effect to Procurement (Part 1)

“Each turn of the flywheel builds upon work done earlier, compounding your investment of effort. A thousand times faster, then…

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June 29, 2020

Making the Business Case for Retaining or Adding Procurement Headcount w/ Alexis Ryan

“Procurement’s got the center stage, like we've never had before. We've got to go in with ideas.” It is never…

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Procurement Transformation

[Pod] Why Procurement Leaders Must Seize the Moment and Transform Their Function – A Mastermind LIVE Spring Panel Discussion

[Pod] Elevating Procurement’s Impact in a Distributed Organization w/ Robert Bonnar

[Pod] How Telecom Giant BT Drives the Bottom Line and Corporate Resiliency w/ Adam Brown

[Pod] Getting a Grip on Your Long Tail Spend w/ Tom Cicale and Sameer Sharma

[Pod] Building World Class Procurement From Scratch w/ Jaime Robles

How Procurement Has Become The Catalyst For Enterprise Transformation w/ Chris Sawchuk and Keith Hausmann

Developing Procurement’s Unique Selling Proposition w/ Juergen Scherer

Applying the Flywheel Effect to Procurement (Part 2)

Applying the Flywheel Effect to Procurement (Part 1)

Making the Business Case for Retaining or Adding Procurement Headcount w/ Alexis Ryan

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