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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.
Big Room Event - How to co-create an Agile Contract in less than 2 days with 3 parties simultaneously
The fascination with Lean-Agile Procurement lies definitely in the big room events, where we gather customer needs with 100+ end users or co-create a Lean-Agile Agreement (Contracts) with e.g. 3 parties each or even let them form alliances as they go. People that hear that often think this isn’t possible, it sounds like magic because up till now it took us months to just finalize a contract!-In this blog post we’d like to share with you the secret sauce and some tipps-n-tricks around it, preparation!
Agile Sourcing, how to plan for uncertain? (LAP Nuggets - Episode 2)
Have you ever wondered, why some of the strategic sourcing cases failed and others were successful?-In a series of episodes we gonna introduce you, what we’ve learned from our LAP Alliance networks’ multiple engagements and successful sourcing cases with LAP. With the LAP Nuggets we’ve furthermore developed and assembled applicable tools, that are easy to understand and will reduce your risks during strategic sourcing significantly!
In this episode we’d like to answer the question: „If we can’t plan uncertainty in strategic sourcing cases, how we can source it then either?!“
Knowledge Paper - Co-published with CIPS.org
We’re very proud to announce, that we recently co-published a knowledge paper about Lean-Agile Procurement together with cips.org - The largest global association for supply management- and procurement professionals.
The secret Sauce of successful Sourcing (LAP Nuggets - Episode 1)
Have you ever wondered, why some of the strategic sourcing cases failed and others were successful?-In a series of episodes we gonna introduce you, what we’ve learned from our LAP Alliance networks’ multiple engagements and successful sourcing cases with LAP. With the LAP Nuggets we’ve furthermore developed and assembled applicable tools, that are easy to understand and will reduce your risks during strategic sourcing significantly!
In this episode we’d like to introduce you the secret sauce of successful souring - Strategic Alignment!
What means Agile from a Procurement point view?
If you’d ask 10 agile coaches you’ll get 11 answers what agile means to them. You’d argue isn’t there one definition for it?-Sure there is, the „Agile Manifesto 2001“, but everybody does it’s interpretation slightly different. Inspired by the blog post „Building Agile Partnerships - Lean Agile Procurement“ by Simon Reindl, Certified LAP Trainer recently wrote about Lean-Agile Procurement I’d like to share what agile means to me from a procurement point of view. Therefor we’ll also refer to the agile manifesto.
Case Study with Amnesty International France - Talk-show Video
Talk-show style interview of the very first LAP initiative in France involving Amnesty International France (the client), Troopers Web Republic (the winning Partner) and Goood (the LAP trainer and coach)The interview focuses on how all 3 parties (Amnesty, Troopers and Goood) lived the experience.
Keynote Article in THE PROCUREMENT MAGAZINE - This is the dawning of the age of agility
This Article has got published in THE PROCUREMENT MAGAZINE 2019-05 as lead article. It was also hand-out at their procurement awards. A big thanks goes to Micol Barba, Editorial Manager - Editor in chief at THE PROCUREMENT ITALIA, who is a strong supporter of our movement Lean-Agile Procurement!
Rolling out Lean Agile Procurement at BNP Paribas: A retrospective.
GUEST Blog Post: We’re proud to co-publish and share with you a very honest retrospective by Reeve Randriamananjara rolling out Lean-Agile Procurement at BNP Paribas. He described his journey from being infected by the LAP virus in one of our public workshop, over convincing his stakeholders at BNP Paribas to actually executing a first pilot. Thanks so much for sharing your story and we’re keen on your further developments with LAP@BNP Paribas :-)
In a fast changing world is the team the main asset!
Côte d’Azure in France, April 25+26 2019 - Together with guests from Air France KLM and David Kershaw from the UK Cabinet office we spent 2 days on our first LAP Retreat 2019, exchanging, challenging, developing Lean-Agile Procurement (short LAP) and most important had some fun & beers!-This blog post is a short summary about and why our concussing was valid for us as well: „In a fast changing world the team is the main asset!“
Agile@Procurement - Down under takes over!
During our exciting 2-days Lean-Agile Procurement certification workshop in Auckland some of the participants came and said to us: „Wow this is so awesome, but our boss/peers/etc needs to know about that too!“-As agile we are we setup some FREE one hour slots called Lean Coffee’s, where those participants could invite wherever they liked. This blog post is about what we’ve experienced & learned during those coffee sessions. Be aware, down under is about to take over the Lean-Agile Procurement movement!
Enlarging our Reach via iTunes & Spotiy, thx to AgileAmped!
New York City, March 15 - Mirko, the creator of LAP has got interviewed by AgileAmed, the most famous podcast about Agile. Thanks to AgileAmped the reach of our movement got enlarged with their audience and the audience of iTunes and Spotify too!-We’re looking forward to inspire even more people around the world.
1st 9 LAP Trainers Certified by LAP Alliance
London, October 11 + 12th - Barclays hosted our first train-the-trainer (TtT) workshop and participated actively in parts of the training. We now have a global footprint of Certified Lean-Agile Procurement Trainers, to overcome the increasing global demand.
Media Release: CKW & FLOWDAYS WIN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT AWARD 2018 EUROPE
CKW and flowdays won the most important European award in the procurement industry with the Supply Management Award. The award honors the innovative and agile procurement process for a new intranet from CKW in weeks instead of months.
Business Agility Institute - Agile Contracting & Procurement Symposium
6 great speakers from 3 continents; Dean Leffingwell , Mirko Kleiner, Stewart James, Manjit Singh, Larry Cooper and Allan Kelly shared their experiences, tips and even their templates with you at the Agile Contracting & Procurement Symposium organized by the Business Agility Institute. Find my slides for FREE DOWNLOAD here.
Case Study - CKW Group: Sourcing of a group Intranet Solution in 2 days via Lean-Agile Procurement
Procurement so far has shown that CKW must move faster and closer to customers in order to better meet their needs. So they decided to try Lean Agile Procurement (LAP) for the first time in order to procure a group intranet solution. With fantastic results, e.g. 400% increased time-to-market!
Thought leaders like Dr. Jeff Sutherland promotes Agile in his book “Doing twice the work in half of the time“ (1). Wouldn’t it be cool to increase time-to-market in procurement as well?-Free Download of our Article in “THE PROCUREMENT MAGAZINE”
Shorter & readable Contracts - Disruption or just faster horses?
UK government lawyers have created a shorter, more user-friendly public sector contract to encourage smaller businesses (SMEs) to bid for £12m worth more easily. Is this really a disruption or just faster horses?
What could Business learn from Startups?
In Agile organisations, external partners are often treated as suppliers instead of partners, not recognising the opportunities they could potentially bring to their teams. In faster changing and complex environments, it will become a competitive advantage for companies to have fast access to an ecosystem of trusted partners with matching values and a fast contribution to goals. Join us this Friday as Mirko Kleiner will discuss what businesses could learn from startups in how they work with external suppliers.
Slides from my Speech "Success Factor Agile" from Agile Bodensee Conference, Konstanz/Germany
Approximately 60-90% of all sales are in the hands of procurement, which is a key success factor for companies. At the moment, digitization is taking place, especially in the area of imple procurement. However, the latest study by the University of St. Gallen shows that there is no recipe for the effective procurement of complex products and services. Does agility offer a solution? - It is about billions and thus nothing less than the survival of suppliers and customers!