In 2008, a category fact base took a team six months to build by hand. With AI, much of it may now take days. What did the slow work build besides the fact base? A century-old lesson from factory electrification, the productivity J-curve, and what recent studies of AI at work suggest.
Operating Model & Leadership
How procurement functions are organised, led and staffed as the role changes: mandate, competences, hiring and the leadership it takes to move a function forward.
Where does procurement’s time actually go?
For years, procurement leaders have given the same answer: somewhere between 10 and 40% of the week is strategic, never a majority. What they said in a CPO Outlook 2023 workshop and in EBG’s surveys since, what Deloitte finds, and why behavioural research suggests the split holds, even with AI.
One process, three owners: where does the mandate sit?
Someone develops the process, someone builds the tool, and the line lives with it every day. Where the mandate sits between the three decides whether anything scales.
Two chairs, one process: what the room maps on day two
Two chairs, one process | CPO Outlook 2026 14–15 October 2026 Hotel Birger Jarl, Stockholm The 23rd EBG | Network summit Digitalisation & ways of working Two chairs, one process: what the room maps on day two Procurement is asked to govern AI for the rest of the business and rebuild its own function with […]
What a procurement award measures says what a profession values
Nordic CPO of the Year 2026 · 14 October, Stockholm The first Nordic CPO of the Year is announced on stage at CPO Outlook on 14 October. Three dimensions carry equal weight, and every nominee is assessed against their own starting point. That is a statement about what procurement leadership is, and what it is […]
Proxima on what procurement is still asked for
Interview · Expert Organisation · Proxima “I just would hate for us to lose focus on what procurement is being asked for and what our value proposition is by what potentially could be a slightly glamorous, shiny thing on the side, the AI conversation. I know that might not be a popular narrative.” Twenty minutes […]
More Responsibility. Less Control. Faster Change.
EBG | Xperience Stockholm 2026 brought thirty procurement leaders together at Scandic Grand Central for a focus day on AI, risk, leadership and transformation. The day’s red thread, set out at the opening: more responsibility, less control, faster change. Three expert organizations — Coupa, Accenture and IntegrityNext — opened the day with views from the […]
EBG | Xperience Stockholm 2026: A Leadership Perspective For Procurement
Every procurement leader knows what the challenges are. What’s rare is hearing how leaders are actually navigating them. Not polished case studies – but honest perspectives from people making decisions under the same pressure you are. That’s what EBG | Xperience Stockholm delivers on April 23rd. Brief reflections and discussions. 30 procurement leaders. One room […]