Blog / Giles Breault
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Procurement Agility in the Age of Digitalisation
How can your procurement team embrace the age of digitalisation and develop an effective roadmap that ultimately puts you in the driver’s seat? The digital enablement field is wide open, with no single right answer on how to proceed. However, there are ways that can help organisations plot a way forward. CPOs must define a roadmap … Continue reading Procurement Agility in the Age of Digitalisation
Why the Traditional Procurement Skill-Set Won’t Make a CPO
Perfecting a traditional procurement skill-set traditionally is a sure-fire way to stop your career progression in its tracks. A large part of my professional career has been devoted to leading global procurement organisations around the world. My business partner, Sammy, and I have collectively spent the better part of five decades doing this. It’s true enough … Continue reading Why the Traditional Procurement Skill-Set Won’t Make a CPO
Productivity in Pharma – Growing Next Level Procurement Skills
What are the skills required to drive next level procurement? This is what the Productivity-in-Pharma Procurement Think Tank aims to uncover. This is the fourth year that the Beyond Group is holding its Productivity-in-Pharma Think Tank and it’s just a few days away. On April 26 in Basel, Switzerland, the first session of this year’s event will bring … Continue reading Productivity in Pharma – Growing Next Level Procurement Skills
‘Productivity in Pharma’ Procurement Think-Tank
The Beyond Group are excited to announce our fourth ‘Productivity in Pharma’ Think Tank. This conclave of senior procurement leaders from the Pharmaceutical industry kicked off in 2013. The aim was to create a unique, mini-MBA style environment, where the most pressing issues facing the function are explored in detail and, from which, key insights and … Continue reading ‘Productivity in Pharma’ Procurement Think-Tank
Agility – Making Flexibility Look Like the Plan
As usual, I take the topics for my blogs directly from my past experience as CPO or, more recently, the work we do with our clients and partner companies. This blog is no different. Lately, it seems to me that in virtually every meeting, every executive development seminar we host, and every conference I attend, … Continue reading Agility – Making Flexibility Look Like the Plan
Being At The Table – A CPO’s Tale Of Woe
This article was originally published on LinkedIn. You can find it here. Some days ago while having a business lunch the topic of “being at the table” arose. It was our client’s fervent hope that as a newly appointed CPO, (a move that presumably underlined the importance of procurement) he one day would sit as … Continue reading Being At The Table – A CPO’s Tale Of Woe