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Haier ZeroDX Journey 2025 - Case Studies, Insights and Learnings (Post 1 - Haier’s Founder Zhang Ruimin about why is Haier so successful?!)
In this series of blog posts, We’ll be sharing key insights, learnings, and experiences from the Haier ZeroDX Journey 2025, and why I believe the future of business lies in a NewEconomic Engine driven by AI and Business Ecosystems.
Post 2 - Haier’s Founder Zhang Ruimin about why is Haier so successful?
Haier ZeroDX Journey 2025 - Case Studies, Insights and Learnings (Post 1 - The Journey)
In this series of blog posts, We’ll be sharing key insights, learnings, and experiences from the Haier ZeroDX Journey 2025, and why I believe the future of business lies in a NewEconomic Engine driven by AI and Business Ecosystems.
Post 1 - The Journey in Italy
Need for SPEED? Starts with the CANVAS
What the F-35 Case Reveals—and How the Lean Procurement Canvas Can Help. Learn from a simplified example how to source better outmodes faster together!
U.S. SPEED Act: The Government Procurement Game-Changer?!
The recently introduced SPEED Act (Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery) marks one of the boldest overhauls of U.S. defense procurement in decades. With global threats evolving at unprecedented speed, the Act seeks to turn America’s procurement machine from a bureaucratic behemoth into an agile, adaptive force enabler.
🇨🇭F-35 Procurement – A Scandal foretold?!
F-35 – Unfortunately, yet another procurement scandal at the Swiss Department of Defense. Plenty of press, plenty of frustration – but very little constructive debate.
Haier - Insights, Learnings and Experiences (Post 5 - The Haier ZeroDX Awards Ecosystem Case Studies)
In this series of blog posts, I’ll be sharing key insights, learnings, and experiences from my visits and collaboration with Haier, and why I believe the future of business lies in a NewEconomic Engine driven by AI and Business Ecosystems.
Post 4 - The Haier Zero DX Awards Ecosystem Case Studies
eRevo - Energy Revolution via a Partner Ecosystem, Setup in 1 DAY (Ecosystem Case Study)
Congratulations to eRevo from Switzerland for their nomination at the 2024 Haier ZeroDX Awards! eRevo was recognized for their groundbreaking Energy Revolution through a Partner Ecosystem—a remarkable achievement made possible in just one day thanks to LAP and the Lean Ecosystem Canvas!
Miles - The value-based IT Company (Ecosystem Case Study)
Congratulations to Miles - The value-based IT Company from Norway for being nominated at the 2024 Haier ZeroDX Awards! Miles was recognized for reinventing collaboration in the IT industry.
Engineering Agility: How Net Engineering Reinvented Its Processes and Culture Empowering Teams (Ecosystem Case Study)
Congratulations to the NET Engineering for being nominated at the 2024 Haier ZeroDX Awards! Net Engineering was recognized for reinventing Its Processes and Culture in the construction industry.
Awarded Ecosystem success Story with the Social Innovation Academy (SINA)
Congratulations to the Social Innovation Academy (SINA) for winning an award at the 2024 Haier ZeroDX Awards! SINA was recognized for creating self-organized and 'freesponsible' learning spaces that empower individuals to drive social change.
Haier - Insights, Learnings and Experiences (Post 4 - The Haier ZeroDX Awards 2024)
In this series of blog posts, I’ll be sharing key insights, learnings, and experiences from my visits and collaboration with Haier, and why I believe the future of business lies in a NewEconomic Engine driven by AI and Business Ecosystems.
Post 4 - The Haier ZeroDX Awards 2024
Haier - Insights, Learnings and Experiences (Post 3 - Preview of the Haier ZeroDX Awards)
In this series of blog posts, I’ll be sharing key insights, learnings, and experiences from my visits and collaboration with Haier, and why I believe the future of business lies in a NewEconomic Engine driven by AI and Business Ecosystems.
Post 3 - Preview of the Haier ZeroDX Awards
Haier - Insights, Learnings and Experiences (Post 2 - The New Economic Engine)
In this series of blog posts, I’ll be sharing key insights, learnings, and experiences from my visits and collaboration with Haier, and why I believe the future of business lies in a NewEconomic Engine driven by AI and Business Ecosystems.
Post 2 - The New Economic Engine
Haier - Insights, Learnings and Experiences (Post 1 - Visiting Haier)
In this series of blog posts, I’ll be sharing key insights, learnings, and experiences from my visits and collaboration with Haier, and why I believe the future of business lies in a New Economic Engine driven by AI and Business Ecosystems.
Post 1 - Visiting Haier in Qingdao, China
Current Trends & Crisis in Procurement - How to integrate this with Lean-Agile Procurement
The world has become very unpredictable (supply chain disruptions, inflation, ..), new trends arrive every other day (ESG, circular economy, sustainability, diversity, ..) while the demand in procurement is increasing. So how to integrate all this, and do we need to adapt anything in Lean-Agile Procurement?
Roche - The Agile Journey of Roche Procurement
Most have heard of ‘Agile’ by now and the theory sounds promising - to setup your organisation, team and ways of working to be ready to respond and innovate quickly in a world that is changing at an unprecedented speed. In Procurement and Contracting, the Agile success stories that come from IT and App building can feel remote and hard to translate to our world. In Roche, these pressures sit alongside the need to constantly bring ‘value beyond savings’ from suppliers and contracting. Join Colm Diamond and Mirko Kleiner spoke at the European Summit 2022 of the WorldCC about Roche’s journey on how the Procurement and Contracts function are changing their structure, how they think and how they work fundamentally to try to get Agile to work for them and how it’s going in reality.
Agile Contracts - The only Template you’ll ever need!
Agile collaboration became the new normal to deal with the ever-changing demands of today’s business. Often this collaboration isn’t supported enough with an as agile contract.
Scaling Agile beyond Companies
In this article you’ll learn why Tesla never had a chip shortage, how you could select new strategic partners in DAYS instead of Months and so how to start scaling agile beyond your company with your preferred Agile Framework and Lean-Agile Procurement.
Zalando - How to introduce Procurement into an Agile Culture?
The COVID-19 crisis has emphasised the importance of new -more agile- approaches in procurement. But is it just another buzzword, or has it become reality?!-Learn from Zalando - How to introduce Procurement into an Agile Culture?
AGCO Int. - How Collaboration with Vendors / Competitors increases Innovation
The COVID-19 crisis has emphasised the importance of new -more agile- approaches in procurement. But is it just another buzzword, or has it become reality?!-Learn from AGCO Int. - How Collaboration with Vendors / Competitors has increased their Innovation.