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SEB | From Complexity to Clarity — Building a Fact-Based Procurement Function

October 30, 2025 By ebgnetwork

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 […]

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From Reactive to Proactive: Why Supply Chain Risk Intelligence Has Become Mission-Critical

Prewave returns as Platinum Partner for CPO Outlook 2026, bringing four years of practitioner insights on moving beyond Tier 1 visibility When Prewave first partnered with CPO Outlook in 2023, the conversation around supply chain risk was already shifting. Three years later, that shift has become a transformation. The gap between organizations with deep supply […]

Tackling Tail Spend at Scale at CPO Outlook 2026

EBG | Network welcomes Candex as a first-time exhibitor at CPO Outlook 2026. This tail spend management specialist brings a global solution to one of procurement’s most persistent operational challenges. Tail spend remains a blind spot for many procurement organizations. The numbers from EBG | Network surveys tell a consistent story. Resource overload affects 62% […]

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 3: Turning Vision into Action

How to Start Constructing Strategic Procurement Identity 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. She focused on how social construction can help explain resistance to organizational change. This final article in the series […]

EBG | Xperience 2026 | Malmö

EBG | Xperience Malmö April 28, 2026 | 09:30-15:00 For Procurement Leaders Who Enable Their Organizations to Act Your teams are skilled. Your challenges are clear. But somewhere between capability and execution, momentum stalls. Approvals pile up. Priorities conflict. The organization asks for more—but doesn’t provide the mandate, data, or resources to deliver. EBG | […]