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Agility & Transformation Forum
A two-day event dedicated to improving stakeholder collaboration, delivering business value and creating competitive advantage.
Ritz Carlton, ChicagoEvent themes include:
- Trust: How to change the perception of procurement from a policy enforcer and road blocker to a respected business partner
- Transparency: Increase visibility with internal business partners and external suppliers, to develop stakeholder trust & clear business partnerships
- Profitability: Ensuring the procurement function continues to expand its scope to include further revenue enhancing activities
Data, Intelligence & Technology Forum
A two-day event focused on improving your end-to-end digital strategy with an emphasis on the talent and skills required leverage data and technology
Code Node, London, UKEvent themes include:
- Solving the talent and technology conundrum: How you find the right balance between upskilling your existing team while bringing in external expertise to drive digital initiatives forward.
- Leveraging the big data value chain: The practicalities of embeding big data analytics into your function’s workflow to increase efficiency of spend management and supply chain visibility.
- Designing a strategy that embraces a fail fast, win faster mindset: How to create a fluid strategy and agile culture that allows you to easily pivot without starting from scratch.
Asia Pacific Procurement Congress
A two-day Congress, gathering Asia Pacific procurement executives to discover and discuss the processes, tools and behaviours needed for procurement to deliver value that contributes to top-line business growth.
Singapore, SGEvent themes include:
- Organisational design, talent and culture: Implementing a structure and culture to develop a world-class procurement team
- Operating model, processes and delivery mechanisms: Developing partnerships for increased business impact and C-suite trust
- Technology and access to relevant data sources and insights: Embracing digital opportunities to help reposition procurement as a valued business partner