841: Three AI-Powered Opportunities: Assist, Augment, Autonomize W/ Etosha Thurman
"If your only role is cost management and processes, that's scary to me. The value of procurement is so much more than that." – Etosha Thurman, Chief Marketing Officer, Finance and Spend Management at...
10 Nov 202542min
839: Building Data-Driven Procurement at Scale W/ Adrian Vicol
"The value you bring as a procurement function has transcended being a cost saver. They are now a discussion partner with other functions and bring value in the form of intelligence." - Adrian Vicol, ...
3 Nov 202536min
840: Why Data Literacy Matters More Than Ever in Procurement W/ Satvinder Panesar
"The value isn't in giving them the coffee beans and hoping they take that away and make a cup of coffee – what they need is a drink. So instead of giving them the data, do the extra steps and pull ou...
3 Nov 202527min
BTW EP 21: Planning for People: Behavioral Architecture with David Loseby
Procurement's toughest problems rarely come from spreadsheets or contracts. They come from people. In this episode of "Buy: The Way…To Purposeful Procurement," David Loseby – professor, former CPO, a...
29 Okt 202539min
838: Protecting Competition: Inside the DOJ's Fight Against Procurement Collusion
"Fraudulent conduct robs the government – at all levels, local, state, or federal – of the benefit of competition. Competition is free and open; it is the Magna Carta of the American economic system, ...
27 Okt 202542min
837: Mastering Influence: Procurement's Internal and External Edge W/ Giuseppe Conti
"Too many procurement professionals have developed a push energy. If you take that same approach with internal stakeholders, it won't work. We need to develop pull energy — asking questions, listening...
20 Okt 202530min
BTW EP 20: Inventive Incentives: Jason Brown on Procurement Incentive Structures
Procurement doesn't just have a measurement problem. It has a motivation problem. Behind every misaligned target, every "savings" claim, and every missed opportunity is the same invisible culprit: inc...
15 Okt 202535min
836: Inside Next-Gen SAP Ariba: Rebuilding Procurement for the AI Era W/ Baber Farooq
"Everyone keeps talking about AI just for the sake of AI, but, ultimately, the only thing that matters is the outcome you can achieve." - Baber Farooq, Senior Vice President, Market Strategy, Procurem...
13 Okt 202530min
