We’re excited to announce the launch of the 2025 Report on the State of Agility in Procurement & Supply—a global collaboration between World Commerce & Contracting (WorldCC) and the Lean-Agile Procurement Alliance (LAP Alliance).
Includes the full report download link.
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!
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 – Unfortunately, yet another procurement scandal at the Swiss Department of Defense. Plenty of press, plenty of frustration – but very little constructive debate.
Curious how Lean-Agile Procurement comes to life in TelCo, pharma, and the public sector?
This month, we spotlight real-world stories that show the impact — plus a peek at our latest developments.
Colm Diamond from Roche Global Procurement shares on how his organization embarked into an agile transformation journey to to drive innovation and better meet patient needs.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
We would like to introduce you to our new NEWS TWITTER. Every month you'll receive 5-10 links to the most exciting news, stories, disruptions, developments, etc. around Agile, Supply Chain, Leadership, Ecosystems, ..
Learn how Enerkem, an innovative leader of the clean tech, sourced a strategic engineering partner in less than 3 months for deploying their technology at the heart of EcoPlanta, which will produce biomethanol and circular methanol from non-recyclable waste.
We would like to introduce you to our new NEWS TWITTER. Every month you'll receive 5-10 links to the most exciting news, stories, disruptions, developments, etc. around Agile, Supply Chain, Leadership, Ecosystems, ..
Find out why BioNtech, Pfizer and Fogun chose to work together in a trust-based way, rather than what you might expect from a contract. Tim Cummins, President of the WorldCC, along with Ugur Sahin, CEO of BioNtech, shared this story at the World Agility Forum 2024, co-hosted by the LAP Alliance this year.
The Dunedin City Council won an award for Outstanding Cooperation & Collaboration at the 2023 World Commerce and Contracting (Asia Pacific) Innovation and Excellence Awards – Congratulations to both the team and the new partner!
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.
In this case story, Rivo Head of Procurement at Candriam shares how Lean-Agile Procurement was used to procure a complex solution in banking, in the matter of weeks not years.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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?