The CPOstrategy Podcast

The Digital Insight welcomes Olivia Brown of global strategists Rowe Advisory, to discuss procurement excellence and the short-to-medium term trends affecting this space...

"Bringing in Agility and Control with Procurement Technology", The Digital Insight welcomes Mohammed Kafil, Sr. Product Manager Kissflow to discuss how CPOs can navigate the challenges of uncertain times… “I think reverse globalisation is going to happen. With the pandemic, people are not going to risk their supply chains into a distant land. They're going to want to retain some ele...

The Digital Insight podcast welcomes Chris Baldwin, VP for Marketing at Insider, to discuss Apple's iOS15 update and examine the ramifications of the death of third-party cookies... And we ask what the new rules of data privacy will mean for ecommerce and data gathering...

Ashim Kapai, Director, Strategic Sourcing at COUPA, joins The Digital Insight to explore the digital landscape of procurement in 2021 and what we can learn from the successes over the last 12 months enabled through our investments in procurement technology...

Welcome to the Digital Insight Podcast, where today we are joined by Sam Achampong, Head of CIPS MENA as we discuss procurement maturity and how the Middle East is on a journey towards being recognised as a procurement benchmark for the rest of the world...

The Digital Insight podcast welcomes Dr Elouise Epstein, Partner at Kearney, and Lance Younger, CEO and Founder of ProcureTech  to discuss the continued evolution of digital procurement. Are we witnessing one of the most significant moments in the history, and future, of procurement?

Paul Bailo joins us one more time for the final installment of the data transformation trilogy where we explore perhaps the sexiest topic in transformation; data analytics.  This is the Data Transformation Trilogy Part 3: Data analytics, imagination, and the world of tomorrow

Sam Holding, Head of International at SparkPost reveals the role of email in enabling marketing teams to be agile and to successfully meet the changing needs of the business and of their target audiences…

What does being a leader really mean to an individual and to an organisation? We learn from a young age about the significance of mentorship and role models, people who can guide us, teach us and inform our development both in life and in our careers.  But do we talk about them enough? When it comes to dealing with transformation, evolution, change... what then becomes of the leader, the mentor, t...

The latest episode of The Digital Insight podcast brings you part two of a three part series with Paul Bailo, Digital Transformation Executive: The Data Transformation Trilogy - Part 2: Why do we hate change management so much?  Change management; two words that will either unlock your transformation, or block it. Love it or hate it, change management is vital to any transformation, so why is it s...

The latest episode of The Digital Insight podcast brings you the first in a new three part series with Paul Bailo, Digital Transformation Executive: The Data Transformation Trilogy - Part 1: Leadership & C-level talent, do you have it?  We explore how leadership teams must reassess their current operating models, take an honest look their existing talent pool of both their employees and execut...

Welcome to the Digital Insight where today we take a look at the electric vehicle market and ask; why is it not as mature as it should be? 2020 became a great year for plug-in vehicles. Reports reveal that we are expecting global Battery Electric Vehicles +Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle sales to hit 3,24 million, compared to 2,26 million for the year previous.  With government mandates moving us...

As a market leader in a world of continuous change and digital disruption what more could you be doing to embrace true  digital disruption and deliver on the promise of tomorrow to an ever evolving customer base? Amanda Heintz, Devops and IT Automation Release Manager at Schneider, joins us to talk about what it's like to work in an industry that is still perceived to be lagging behind in the...

If I said to you that CTOs could learn a lot from Team GB and its Olympic gold medal-winning cycling team - would you believe me?  Bear in mind that this was the same team that had only won one gold medal in 76 years, but then won seven at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In the 14 years since then, it has established itself as a powerhouse in Olympic cycling.  Now of course, there are many contributing...

Is access to fast and reliable supplier data more important now than ever before? Answering this for us today is Stephany Lapierre, CEO of Tealbook and Jim Bureau, CEO of JAGGAER as we also  discuss a new partnership between the two that will provide enriched supplier data for JAGGAER customers through access to Tealbook’s Supplier Intelligence Platform.

According to a recent report from ABI Research, the digital twin market is expected to grow from $3.8bn , as of 2019, to $35.8bn per year by 2025, with more than 500 urban digital twins expected to be in use.  So what's behind this expected growth? Well, perhaps unsurprisingly, COVID19 has meant that now more than ever before we need to increase resilience and optimise resource management.  M...

The latest episode of The Digital Insight welcomes back Dave Ingram, CPO of Unilever. The company recently announced a series of significant commitments and actions to help build a more equitable and inclusive society by raising living standards across its value chain, creating opportunities through inclusivity, and preparing people for the future of work , At the very centre of this vision, lies...

Welcome to the digital insight bitesize, where today, we take a look at: Corporate wellness.  The covid19 pandemic and the subsequent shift towards working from home has changed the way we work entirely - forcing a lot of companies to think, perhaps for the very first time, about corporate wellness. We’ve all been forced to transform our kitchen spaces, spare bedrooms and even worktops into our ne...

In another episode of The Digital Insight Bitesize, we take a look at  cybersecurity.  With a recent  report indicating that leading retailers across the EU and US are running outdated applications, leaving them vulnerable to cyber attacks, we ask:  Can you be complacent when it comes to your approach to cyber security?  Traditionally such matters would be placed on the desk of the CIO and the IT...

Welcome to another Bitesize edition of the Digital Insight podcast where today we ask: Is the call centre making a come back or are automated digital solutions the way forward? For two in five UK consumers, the telephone has replaced face-to-face interactions during the pandemic, so what does this mean for the future of consumer and brand interaction, is the call centre making a comeback or are au...

An exclusive podcast with Steve Morgan, Partnership Director at Agilisys, who reveals how digital transformation and big data can help both social, and healthcare, post-Covid. Through digital technology, Agilisys enables healthcare, local government and organisations throughout the public sector to become more efficient, provide better patient and citizen outcomes and improve the working lives of...

The Digital Insight - Bitesize edition: The first of  a condensed, succinct, but equally as engaging and insightful look at some of the key topics around procurement & technology.   Today's question: How should you as a business leader challenge, and in some instances collaborate with, your competitors to do more around sustainable best practice?   To answer this , we have Jolyon Bennet,...

Rod Robinson is Vice President of Supplier Inclusion and Sustainability at Coupa, and the focus of that role, is to really drive inclusive procurement across the Coupa ecosystem, helping Coupa customers achieve, and even exceed, their supplier inclusion goals... "…when you think about supplier diversity initiatives, small business procurement initiatives, it's really about driving econom...

The Digital Insight is joined by Gayle Carpenter,  Creative Director and Founder of Sparkloop.  Together, we discuss her journey as an incredibly successful female entrepreneur and we  explore the glaring lack of female founders and the challenges and barriers that many women face in entrepreneurship. We also look at the progress and the real change for good that we have seen over the last 15 year...

Annie Li, VP Value Chain Asia, Movado Group  joins the Digital Insight to look at how we define supply chain resilience,  how its become a must have in times of crisis and how supply chain resilience can actually be a competitive advantage.