Dan Murphy unpacks the paradox of public procurement, where decades of well-intentioned bureaucracy now optimize for impunity instead of outcomes, and shows how replacing promises with proof can turn procurement from compliance ritual into strategic enabler.
Agile delivery can only achieve true end-to-end flow if organizations break down silos by transforming procurement (and other support functions) from slow, centralized gatekeepers into platform-style, guardrail-driven capabilities that enable fast, compliant cross-company collaboration and co-innovation.
The LAP Alliance and P3 Group have joined forces to bring greater impact to agile transformations, combining P3's deep expertise in digital transformation with LAP's procurement methodology.
PRESS RELEASE: Scaled Agile, Inc. and the Lean-Agile Procurement Alliance have joined forces to Reinvent Procurement for the Age of AI - Boost your SAFe Implementation with LAP to Unleashing Speed, Flow, and Value-Creation at Scale.
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 7 - The Awards & Winners
Empowerment Reimagined: How SINA’s Ecosystem Logic Turns Displacement into Opportunity (Ecosystem Case Study)
For too long, procurement has been seen as the enemy of innovation, slowing things down with rigid processes, contracts, and a cost-first mindset. But in today’s world of disruption, AI, and ecosystem collaboration, that old paradigm no longer works.
Innovation does not emerge from isolated teams. It flourishes when organizations and their partners create the right conditions to experiment, adapt, and grow together. Procurement is at the very heart of that shift. From agile contracting to ecosystem design, it can either stifle or unlock the collaboration that innovation depends on.
Procurement is often the missing piece in Agile transformations. In this Scrum.org Community Podcast, Dave West is joined by Mirko Kleiner, President, Lean Agile Procurement Alliance and Simon Reindl, Professional Scrum Trainer to explore how procurement’s traditional predictive approach can clash with Agile’s iterative nature—and how to fix it. They share how early involvement, transparency, and cross-functional collaboration between procurement, legal, and product teams can unlock greater agility. Learn how to apply Lean Agile Procurement principles, shift toward goal-oriented contracts, and align third-party relationships to deliver better outcomes faster.
The State of Procurement in the Age of AI highlights how global disruption, rapid digitalization, and artificial intelligence are reshaping supply chains and contracting. Traditional procurement models are too slow and adversarial, creating bottlenecks that limit agility and innovation. Lean-Agile Procurement (LAP) positions procurement as a strategic capability within the Agile Product Operating Model, enabling collaboration, adaptability, and trust-based contracts. With 90% of organizations recognizing agility as critical, but only 8% including partners in transformations, the paper stresses the urgent need for ecosystem-level agility to unlock competitive advantage, resilience, and faster, value-driven outcomes across industries.
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
What does it take to enable a circular economy in construction?
This case study walks you through Switzerland Innovation Park Central’s Open Innovation Ecosystem.
From over 50 projects to policy adoption, learn how ecosystems turn collaboration into transformation.
This case study presents a consultancy built on a decentralized structure and people-first philosophy. It explains how independent “cells” foster autonomy, innovation, and customer proximity and how new ventures like kustik extend the company’s philosophy into fresh business domains.
This bold statement was dropped at a Wellington’s startup and innovation event. A live poll confirmed it: startup-friendly policy and procurement is the top priority to accelerate growth and impact.
From a fighter jet deal gone wrong to the innovative way US DoD streamlines its procurement process, this edition focuses on procurement in government and defense.
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 4 - The Gummy Industries Case Study
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 VAR Group Case Study
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?
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
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.