Helen Mackenzie, Head of Exchequer Services – Scottish Local Government, on unleashing public procurement.
We need to unleash the power of public procurement! Helen likens it to a buildup behind a hydroelectric dam. There’s never been a better time for that power to be unleashed.
The Faculty’s Gordon Donovan thinks businesses could win big by investing a small amount of time.
Simple and easy to implement, Gordon’s dictum is: meet with one supplier, for one hour, once a week.
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Max Goonan, Networks Director – The Faculty, talks up the advantages of collaborative learning.
Hear Max state his case for “positive independence” – where every person in the profession perceives that they are linked with each other in such a way that one cannot succeed unless everyone succeeds.
“I do believe the impact of our profession – we underestimate it…”
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David Noble, Group Chief Executive of The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), provides a fascinating insight into the profession from the point of view of the chartered body.
Addressing and shifting some paradigms about procurement first, David then goes on to speak about the importance of ethics and compliance and how licensing the profession helps professionals in their day-to-day roles.
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Chris Sawchuk, Principal – The Hackett Group, stresses the importance of adding differentiation in addition to value.
Chris says that Procurement needs to add market intelligence as one of its services. We need to create services that are based on our customers and become more of a pull model rather than a push model.
Giles Breault, Founder of The Beyond Group, states that procurement organisations have been over-defined by their own function (and language).
Giles believes that procurement organisations are on the cusp of an evolutionary change. He also gives two examples of how they can contribute to the greater value of a business.
Sue Steel, VP – Jacobs, on the need to bring frugal innovation to procurement.
Sue reiterates that although her idea is nothing new, it’s certainly related to where we need be as procurement professionals as we hurtle towards 2030.
Jonathan Betts from Science Warehouse makes a startling statement in his Big Ideas video.
Controversial? Jonathan doesn’t think so, as he reminds us that in the past 15 years we’ve seen successive waves of technology disruption.
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Peter Smith, Managing Editor of Spend Matters Europe reckons that procurement is fast disappearing as a function.
Peter says that the procurement function might not exist in 20 years. Instead it will become the role of every employee to achieve value from third party suppliers.
David Hulsen is co-founder of RFP365 – a dynamic software application that makes the entire RFP (request for proposal) process collaborative and streamlined.
David’s Big Idea for procurement is leveraging 21st century technology for vendor selection.
Blink and you’ll miss it as David’s video lasts a mere 39 seconds – happily conforming to our 1 minute challenge. It just shows you don’t need to agonise over a lengthy speech. Well done David!
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