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The New Engine in the Old Factory — and Why Change Is Harder Than It Looks

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There is a statistic circulating right now that keeps coming back: ninety-five percent of generative AI pilots fail to deliver measurable financial impact. Not because the technology doesn’t work. Because deploying it in a way that delivers results turns out to be an organizational challenge, not a technical one. At EBG | Network, we have […]

EBG | Play: What Does Your AP System Know About Your Suppliers That You Don’t?

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Webinar recap: Fredrik Rydqvist from Medius on why the invoice might be the most underused data source in procurement The starting point: one step no supplier ever skips Every step in the source-to-pay process can be bypassed. Requisitions get skipped. POs forgotten. Contracts ignored. Receipts go missing. But there’s one step no supplier ever skips: […]

Procurement Professionals on Easing Workload and Driving Impact

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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“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 […]