From experience to evolution When Maria Kämbrant, CPO at Länsförsäkringar, opened her session on Day 2 of CPO Outlook 2025, she didn’t start with talking about a framework or a five-year plan — she started with 30 years of experience. “After almost 30 years in work life — what are my reflections?” she asked. “We know change […]
SEB | From Complexity to Clarity — Building a Fact-Based Procurement Function
At CPO Outlook 2025, Michael Hansén, Chief Procurement Officer at SEB, shared a candid and inspiring story of transformation. With over two decades of procurement experience across industries, he joined SEB in 2021 to build a procurement function almost from scratch — within one of the Nordic region’s largest financial institutions. From a blank slate […]
EBG | Webinar: From Fragmented to Focused: Elkem’s Supplier Management Journey
What does it take to create a shared, structured way of working with your suppliers — defining risk, mitigating actions and following up ESG, and performance? EBG | Network, together with Elkem, Ivalua and PwC invite you to a highly relevant and practical live webinar. Date: November 12th, 2025Time: 10:00-10:45 AM CET (we will extend the session […]
Nokia join Source 2 Pay Summit 2021
So, you have centralized Global Business Services and your company decide to streamline and improve source to pay efficiency and effect? What do you do? Who does what? What technology do you use? How do you ensure stakeholders are onboard? EBG | Network are happy to welcome Timor Peters, Business Process Consultant at Nokia to […]
EBG | Play: Beckers Groups sustainability change management journey
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 […]