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AGILE BUDGETS. AGILE CONTRACTS. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FINANCIAL NEED MEETS MARKET REALITY?
Market and business uncertainty has created an unprecedented need for agile and adaptable systems and processes. Finance is at the forefront, struggling to set and manage budgets, forecasts and cash flow in today’s unpredictable conditions. Learn from our Panalists Tim Cummins, Rikard Olson & Mirko Kleiner
SwissCasinos - Is it possible to source an ERP System in just 4 Weeks?
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 Daniel how SwissCasinos sourced an ERP System in just 4 !-This story was recently awarded as the Winner of the World Procurement Awards 2020!
APA Group - How Agile is changing an Industry & Lives!
Henriette introduced us in how applying Agile is currently changing a whole Industry and also her Live!-In other words she’s talking us trough how Lean Agile Procurement has helped to shape significant change in individuals, teams, organisations and supply chains within the energy industry.
6 Success Stories - Agile in Procurement just Talk or Reality?!
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 6 cases all around the world how agile in procurement impacted their business positively. One of the stories just won the World Procurement Award 2020!
AirFrance KLM - How to Outsource a Critical Project with Lean-Agile Procurement
With a challenging six-month time frame, Air France looked to a new innovative approach to procuring the right team for the job.
Air France KLM Cargo Operations needed to improve the efficiency and productivity of its door-to-door cargo. Time is essential in freight and any delay or break in the chain would lead to product waste and unhappy customers. It was critical that a new system was created to improve the efficiency.
A new booking system was required within six months, how were Air France going to assemble a team that worked cohesively and remotely, thought innovatively, understood the cargo industry, and produce the product within the challenging time frame.
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.