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Haier - Insights, Learnings and Experiences (Post 1 - Visiting Haier)
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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

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Roche - The Agile Journey of Roche Procurement
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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.

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Scaling Agile beyond Companies
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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.

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There are NO Agile Contracts!
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There are NO Agile Contracts!

Similar as there are no unicorns, even no cats with one :-), there also don’t exist agile contracts!-In my opinion we not just need get rid off this term, we also need to rethink how we come to an agreement.

In this blog post you’ll find out why and learn alternatives to overcome the dilemma of Business Agility and handling the legal aspects with your partners.

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