The Hackett Group’s Melani Flores on this important trend that is impacting procurement.
Melani’s Big Idea revolves around Cyber Security and the need for procurement teams to manage their own data privacy risks. She also recognises that the future of efficient procurement lies in collaboration, but how secure are those flows of information?
Listen to Danielle Stewart, Chartered Accountant (an interloper by her own admission), tell how her Big Idea was borne out of a shopping trip to London’s Westfield Shopping Centre with her daughters…
More needs to be done to combat this so-called fast fashion culture, measures need to be put in place to ensure the workers that manufactured the goods are well looked after.
‘We have to be more flexible, we have to be more agile, to react to these sorts of things…’
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Looking to the future, Chris Sawchuk, Principle and Global Procurement Advisory Practice Leader at The Hackett Group, spoke about organisational agility and the need for organisations to adapt and move quickly in a constantly-changing business environment.
From a procurement standpoint, Chris argued that it means learning from the likes of Uber and being more customer centric and delivering value beyond cost savings, while being more active in promoting itself as a function.
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Listen to Nick Walden, Senior Advisor – The Hackett Group, talk Change Management.
Nick’s Big Idea revolves around having the courage to change, and he offers four basic steps for making that happen.
“But sometimes I worry that large portions of the procurement profession are uncontacted…”
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Tania Seary, founder of Procurious, started off with an statistic that there are 27 indigenous tribes in the Amazon region that are entirely disconnected from the rest of the world, comparing that to the often isolated procurement profession.
Tania looked at the impact of social media on the profession, and how it can help to create the community for procurement to allow us to work together, solve problems and ultimately create value for businesses. One of these platforms is Procurious.
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Hear David Noble, Group CEO – CIPS, talking about licensing the procurement profession.
David’s Big Idea is actually something that CIPS has come up with as a policy statement.
Dr David Hames, Executive Chairman – Science Warehouse, is tapping spend data analytics and the eMarketplace.
Growth in the area has been driven by B2C – and as a result we’re seeing a huge digital revolution. However the technology is only driven by the data behind it, and this is what lies behind the good Dr’s idea…
Dapo Ajayi, Chief Procurement Officer – AstraZeneca, believes more must be invested in the capability of people in procurement for the future.
Dapo wants us all to build a culture of training and education.
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The future is all about Open-Source Software! Tania says that she first fell for the magic of open-source software during the planning stages of building Procurious.
Stuart Pemble, Burberry Group Procurement Manager wants us all to think of Procurement as the ‘Trusted Advisor’. Watch his video below to learn how.
Stuart says that Procurement professionals need to sell themselves as trusted advisors with unrivalled relationships both internally and with their customers and suppliers.
