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Sanja Cancar-Todorovic, Head of Enterprise Procurement, Outsourcing and Third-Party Risk Management Leader, discusses the gender imbalance in procurement and the benefits of organisations reaching parity in the industry.

Simon Whatson, Vice President of Efficio Consulting, speaks to us about the changing digital procurement function and how leadership styles are changing as the pace of technology adoption accelerates.

We discuss how procurement can act as an enabler of real change, and true value, through these challenging times with Paul Farrow, Vice President Supply Management, Hilton Worldwide

We speak to Nirav Patel, CEO of Bristlecone (a supply chain company of the $19bn Mahindra group), who discusses how businesses can cope with persistent, global supply chain issues – and outlines the concerns looming on the horizon.

This week, we speak to CEO Jody Rowe who launched Rowe Advisory seven years ago after spying an opportunity to develop a service that provided good procurement advice from expert consultants. After establishing Rowe Advisory, Jody soon realised that the contracts and procurement function was also highly undervalued in many organisations and that there was a gap in the market for good procurement documentation and procedures. This is why Jody created Promitheia Procurement…

The Digital Insight discusses the road to procurement transformation at a rapidly growing enterprise with Chris Shaffer, Senior Director of Procurement, Facilities & Biomedical Support at EyeCare Partners…EyeCare Partners works in partnership with clinicians and healthcare leaders to achieve the best patient and business outcomes and this has had dramatic results, such as a 1,500% revenue growth since 2015. EyeCare Partners is growing through acquisitions, by providing strategic capital and operational support to its network of partner practices in 680 locations across 18 states. In February 2020, this growth was boosted when Swiss private equity firm Partners Group acquired a controlling stake in EyeCare Partners. “They’re a very interesting group,” he says. “They're very heavy on investment, plus they have a very, very impenetrable and robust sustainability platform too, which is very near and dear to my heart through my time at Unilever,”  This level of growth is fueled significantly by an increasing demand for eye care over the longer term, driven by an aging US population and an increased incidence rate of eye diseases. But this level of growth requires an agile and resilient operational enterprise. 

Padma Ravichander, is the CEO of Tecnotree, a global provider of telecom IT solutions for the management of products, customers and revenue. She talks to The Digital Insight about how it is empowering digital communities by helping Communications Service Providers (CSPs) transform their business towards a marketplace of digital services and deliver value throughout the customer lifecycle.Register for Tecnotrees's webinar on May 18th when Padma Ravichander will be chairing a session on 'How to successfully drive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the digital age' featuring contributions from MTN, Ooredoo, Accenture and more... https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J_7dkWK3QCeM9b3uO7QJbA

Jean-Philippe Desbiolles, VP & Managing Director - Groupe Credit Mutuel – for Financial Services, the AI & Data Leader at the IBM Industry Academy and an IBM France Executive Board Member, talks to The Digital Insight about his book, ‘AI Will be What you Make of It: The 10 Golden Rules of Artificial Intelligence’

Today, we are joined by Pascal Bensoussan, Chief Product Officer at Ivalua, who discusses some of the challenges facing supply chain and procurement professionals in these rather unprecedented times…

April Mullen, Director of Brand & Content Marketing, SparkPost shares her insights on how business can leverage the right intel to drive optimal performance from email through design and accessibility (making better use of dark mode, emojis and GIFS) content creation and improved processes that unlock creativity. 

Bringing a wealth of experience to the table, Kuvesh Ayer, CPO for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority discusses procurement transformation and being prepared for anything

The Digital Insight welcomes Olivia Brown of global strategists Rowe Advisory, to discuss procurement excellence and the short-to-medium term trends affecting this space...

"Bringing in Agility and Control with Procurement Technology", The Digital Insight welcomes Mohammed Kafil, Sr. Product Manager Kissflow to discuss how CPOs can navigate the challenges of uncertain times…“I think reverse globalisation is going to happen. With the pandemic, people are not going to risk their supply chains into a distant land. They're going to want to retain some element of a captive, centre-based development or production or an in-house inland production”

The Digital Insight podcast welcomes Chris Baldwin, VP for Marketing at Insider, to discuss Apple's iOS15 update and examine the ramifications of the death of third-party cookies... And we ask what the new rules of data privacy will mean for ecommerce and data gathering...

Ashim Kapai, Director, Strategic Sourcing at COUPA, joins The Digital Insight to explore the digital landscape of procurement in 2021 and what we can learn from the successes over the last 12 months enabled through our investments in procurement technology...

Welcome to the Digital Insight Podcast, where today we are joined by Sam Achampong, Head of CIPS MENA as we discuss procurement maturity and how the Middle East is on a journey towards being recognised as a procurement benchmark for the rest of the world...

The Digital Insight podcast welcomes Dr Elouise Epstein, Partner at Kearney, and Lance Younger, CEO and Founder of ProcureTech  to discuss the continued evolution of digital procurement.Are we witnessing one of the most significant moments in the history, and future, of procurement?

Paul Bailo joins us one more time for the final installment of the data transformation trilogy where we explore perhaps the sexiest topic in transformation; data analytics.  This is the Data Transformation Trilogy Part 3: Data analytics, imagination, and the world of tomorrow

Sam Holding, Head of International at SparkPost reveals the role of email in enabling marketing teams to be agile and to successfully meet the changing needs of the business and of their target audiences…

What does being a leader really mean to an individual and to an organisation? We learn from a young age about the significance of mentorship and role models, people who can guide us, teach us and inform our development both in life and in our careers.  But do we talk about them enough? When it comes to dealing with transformation, evolution, change... what then becomes of the leader, the mentor, the role model?  Rachel Lemos, director of procurement at Canadian Western Bank, joins me to discuss how role models, mentors and leadership has and continues to defined her own professional journey.  In times of great change, the responsibility to lead and to inspire…. rests upon her shoulders.