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 […]
CPO Outlook 2025 | From Reality to Reinvention
After fifteen years on stage, one thing remains constant: procurement leaders’ willingness to share what is real. Behind every new technology lies an ongoing question. Every shift in expectation prompts how to focus, connect, and act when everything seems important at once. At CPO Outlook 2025, that honesty took center stage again. The conversations and […]
The Human Side of Digital Evolution: Why Our Brains — and Our Companies — Struggle to Keep Up
When we talk about transformation, we tend to think in systems: technology stacks, processes, AI platforms, and operating models.But beneath it all, there is one constant — the human brain. It has powered every revolution since the Industrial Age, yet remains largely the same.And perhaps that’s the most important insight of all. A note from […]
EBG | Interview: Part II | Visibility, control, and compliance by digitising Source-to-pay processes
In the second interview part, interviewing Richard Waugh, VP Corporate Development at Zycus, we continue to discuss challenges and opportunities advancing procurement digitization. Or – rather – gathering and sharing those huge amounts of data floating around in any large company and making the best of it. Richard come from years of working with procurement […]
EBG | Insight: Realising procurement’s potential from a source to pay perspective
Organizations are striving to increase an understanding of company spend, ways to improve innovation speed and company capital and cash. Procurement have for a long time struggled to highlight the possible impact the know how they possess can have on all of the above. Challenges visualizing what is and what if can be part of […]
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: Solving the e-procurement user adoption challenge
The title of this webinar holds many promises. Could there be a single formula that enable organizations to use systems as intended? May it be the way they are implemented, how many hours are spent on education, how processes are set up or who are able to use it. Of course all of that matters […]
EBG | Play: Public e-procurement success factors
In the early spring EBG | Network held a couple of Online Benchmark Sessions focusing on Public Sector Tender and Procurement development. Most of what EBG do is done in English – however it became fairly clear that the public sector target group wanted us to do the sessions in Swedish, so sorry to the […]
EBG | Play: Structuring global procurement
It is no easy task creating and managing global organizations. It is no easy task managing global procurement organizations – end-to-end. This is why it is extra inspiring to listen to Tamara Braun, CPO at SAP sharing how they have chosen to structure their global procurement organization. How they have chosen to set up their […]
EBG | Play: From re-active to pro-active spend visibility
EBG | Network are happy to be able to share the recorded webinar session held with Vattenfall, made possible by Qlik , in June. A big thank you to Sahar Shirzad and to everyone who joined (fully booked!). The recording View the recording below and stay tuned to upcoming Online Benchmark Sessions and webinars. Live […]