Analysis of CPO Outlook 2025 Open-Ended Survey Responses | EBG Network When asked what would most help ease their workload or make their role more impactful, procurement professionals offered candid responses that reveal both persistent frustrations and clear pathways forward. What emerges from these responses is not a list of complaints but rather a coherent […]
Why Data Quality Keeps Appearing in Every Transformation Conversation
From CPO Outlook survey responses to workshop mapping exercises, data challenges emerge as the persistent barrier beneath every other transformation struggle Something interesting happened when we aggregated findings from CPO Outlook 2025 in Stockholm and EBG | Xperience events across three Nordic cities. Different questions, different formats, different participants – yet the same fundamental issue […]
What Procurement Data Showed Us at CPO Outlook 2025
Procurement at an Inflection Point: Insights from The Hackett Group at CPO Outlook 2025 At CPO Outlook 2025, Vicky Kavan from The Hackett Group delivered a keynote that captured both the speed of global change and the structural realities inside procurement teams. Her message connected Hackett’s global data with what Nordic leaders experience every day. […]
Bridging the Functional Divide: How Procurement Navigates Cross-Functional Expectations
In October 2025, procurement leaders from across the Nordics gathered at the CPO Outlook 2025 summit in Stockholm to discuss the evolving challenges facing their function. The summit, held on October 15-16, brought together senior leaders from major organizations including NCC, Scania, Länsförsäkringar, Handelsbanken, Equinor, Solar, and Essity. Through surveys conducted from September through November […]
CPO Outlook 2025 | Performing While Transforming – A Vision for 2040
A Reflective Close to Day 1 The first day of CPO Outlook 2025 ended as it began — with realism and courage. After a full day of data, debate, and lived experience, the final session invited delegates to pause and look forward. The goal was not philosophy but perspective: to acknowledge how much is changing […]
How to master supplier communication and data
If you could line up all the supplier data in your critical and non critical systems – how many miles would they reach? How much time is spent managing poor data? How many decisions may have been conducted based on non optimal information? The discussion about how to tackle the often thousands of suppliers and […]
EBG | Play: What is augmented intelligence within the supply chain?
“Artificial intelligence is not purely “artificial.” The ideal approach amplifies human intuition with machine intelligence to create a powerful multiplier effect. That’s augmented intelligence.” A statement made by Qlik with the headline “From BI to “AI””. EBG | Network hosted a webinar together with Paul Winsor at Qlik. The topic what augmented intelligence mean within the […]
EBG Play | Robotic Process Automation – What does it mean for Procurement and Finance?
We say WOW. What HUGE interest last weeks webinar session about robotic process automation with Göran Martinsson at PwC and Buster Olsborn at Basware generated. Across the globe and across functions. Thank you all who joined us live and all of you who registered. Leading up to this webinar EBG wrote a statement saying “In […]
EBG Play | How data driven are you?
Data is every where and data is everything yet if you ask most organizations they would probably state that still a lot of information “sit” in excel sheets and that much work is still managed manually. So how do you know to what extent increased automation and data insights can help improve efficiency and bottom […]
EBG | Play: Making sense of procurement and AP data
A great number of people signed up to join a webinar named “”How do you make sense of procurement and accounts payable data?” where Jereme Pineda at Basware shared his insights into the matter. From a finance perspective cost is a solid way of analyzing purchase to pay outcome, but how about looking at it […]