EBG | Xperience Malmö | April 28, 2026 On April 28th, EBG | Xperience returns to Malmö – and with it, a half-day designed around something procurement events rarely priorities: leadership. Not leadership as a buzzword. Leadership as the practice of creating conditions where skilled teams can actually move forward. Where complexity becomes navigable. Where […]
IntegrityNext Joins EBG | Xperience 2026 STHLM as Expert Organization
When 75% of procurement leaders cite lack of visibility beyond Tier 1 as their biggest challenge, the conversation shifts from frameworks to operational reality. We’re pleased to welcome IntegrityNext to EBG | Xperience 2026 in Stockholm as Expert Organization – a role that goes beyond sponsorship to active participation in the peer discussions that define […]
Trust as Infrastructure: The Missing Element in Procurement’s AI Journey
What Google’s Approach Reveals About Transformation Summary Digital transformation in procurement has focused heavily on technology, data, and process. But closing CPO Outlook 2025, Suzana Drakulic from Google Workspace highlighted an element that rarely appears in implementation roadmaps: trust. Drawing on Google’s approach to AI adoption, she explored why psychological safety, bold leadership, and the […]
Procurement Professionals on Easing Workload and Driving Impact
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 Leaders Actually Want to Fix: Patterns from the Technology Wish List
When you ask what single technology challenge they’d solve, procurement leaders reveal more about transformation barriers than any survey question could When we asked 58 procurement professionals at CPO Outlook 2025 to name the single technology challenge they would solve if they could, something unexpected happened. They didn’t describe aspirational capabilities or cutting-edge innovations. Instead, […]
Reinventing Procurement, Part 2: What Leaders Would Start Doing Tomorrow
The Strategic Future Procurement Leaders Are Ready to Build Based on CPO Outlook 2025 Survey | 58 procurement leaders from 47 Nordic companies Analytical Note: Anna Bjärkerud, founder of EBG | Network, has a behavioral science-focused Bachelor’s degree with emphasis on how social construction can help explain resistance to organizational change. The following analysis examines […]
EBG | Play: From Fragmented to Focused: Elkem’s Supplier Management Journey
EBG | Play: From Fragmented to Focused: Elkem’s Supplier Management Journey
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 | NCC – Human and AI, Not Human or AI
From Automation to Augmentation When Emma Papakosta, Head of Purchasing Development & Digitalization at NCC, took the stage on Day 2 of CPO Outlook 2025, she asked the room to pause and reflect on what technology really means for procurement. “AI is when machines replace humans,” she said. “IA — Intelligence Augmentation — is when […]