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Roche's Agile Journey in Global Procurement
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Roche's Agile Journey in Global Procurement

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.

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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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News-Ticker 02/2024
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News-Ticker 02/2024

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, ..

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News-Ticker 01/2024
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News-Ticker 01/2024

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, ..

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Trust-Based Development of the COVID-19 Vaccine
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Trust-Based Development of the COVID-19 Vaccine

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.

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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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