How to move from silo CSR and sustainability code of conduct website statements to active performance measures and supplier collaboration activities is increasingly important for most large organizations. EBG | Network was happy to be able to share – in much detail – the work made by Beckers Group and not the least Thomas Lüder, […]
SKF to Source 2 Pay Summit 2017
This addition makes us happy. One year ago Kristin Ang, Group Purchasing Strategy & Business Transformation Manager at SKF Group hosted very appreciated round table discussions at Source 2 Pay Summit focusing on change management challenges in a truly global organization. And as all working with change management initiatives know – they take time! So – […]
EBG | Seminar: Practical change and transformation management
EBG are well known to enable experience exchange among peers. EBG are also well known to create flawless experiences with the focus on the right things – sharing know-how, getting to a result, being concrete and taking an end-to-end perspective. A while back EBG conducted a survey among Swedish procurement and finance organizations to find […]
EBG | Insight: Change ahead at Statoil Fuel & Retail
EBG interviewed Knut Olav Irgens Høeg, Head of Procurement Europe at Statoil Fuel & Retail AS (SFR) about his long experience from procurement in different industries and the work being done in SFR. Statoil Fuel & Retail is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc. since 2012 and in 2016 all gas stations will change […]
EBG | Insight: What is procurement transformation?
Gathering different type professionals in a room – real or virtual – and allowing the group to share experiences is what EBG is all about. At Source to Pay Summit 2015 Andreas Bivall at Boliden moderated Theme Discussions about transforming procurement and below is a recorded summary interview about what was said. Next Source to […]
EBG | Insight: If all is about change – how can we make change more strategic
The art of change. The art of managing change. The art of managing strategic change. The art of change in a strategic way. Ask anyone and change management is on the top list of what is perceived the biggest challenge in any large organization. Why is it so hard to realize strategies? Strategies followed by […]
LinkedIn: Looking at the internal customer in stakeholder management
How to perform most wisely when wanting to convince internal and external stakeholders to act as stated in the latest management board statement is a multimillion question. Enforcing change in behaviour have been a commonly used tactic, especially when talking about transaction automation, internal control and supplier motivation. Needless to say that tactic have had […]
LinkedIn: Is one keystone to success of change missing?
”What’s in it for me?” In every sucessful change management strategy that little sentence is prepared for. Thinking that change in behaviour is possible without it is vane. However, a little note to that very important understanding: What’s in it for me equals what’s in it for me in any relationship – between manager and […]
What motivates change in attitude and action = motivation
On a recent note of communicating with public sector in Sweden a couple of reflections on change in behaviour is needed. In Sweden there is, as many might know, a big change in public sector financial management. In the EU there are projects aiming at controlling public sector cost through e-procurement, e-tendering and e-invoicing. In […]
LinkedIn: Understand the why (the reasons) and the what (the strategies)
It cannot be said often enough – the need to treat people as thinking individuals and not as part of the roadmap to the next annual report. In P2P it is sometimes amazing how explicit the what and how need to be explained in order to achieve even the slightest change in every day behaviour. […]