1st 9 LAP Trainers Certified by LAP Alliance
London, October 11 + 12th - Barclays hosted our first train-the-trainer (TtT) workshop and participated actively in parts of the training. We now have a global footprint of Certified Lean-Agile Procurement Trainers, to overcome the increasing global demand.
London, October 11 + 12th - Barclays hosted our first train-the-trainer (TtT) workshop and participated actively in parts of the training. We now have a global footprint of Certified Lean-Agile Procurement Trainers, to overcome the increasing global demand.
Participants from all around the world joined in and wanted to become Certified Lean-Agile Procurement Trainers. They want to teach and conduct Lean-Agile Procurement (short LAP) in their home markets. All of the Trainers see LAP as a 'Game Changer' in procurement / sales and partner management. Lean-Agile Procurement, an approach to make complex sourcing simple, attracted these Agile, Lean and Procurement Experts.
Source: LAP Alliance. Persons on the photo from left: Mirko Kleiner/flowdays, Avi Schneier/scruminc, Lionel Massiera, Céline Stauder/both goood, Pete Schibli/JumpShift Development, Jessica Larsen/scruminc, Sophie Durand, Damien Thouvenin/both goood, Ivan Dubrovin/Scrumtrek, Philipp Engstler/flowdays, missing on photo: Simon Reindl/Advanced Product Delivery Ltd.
The news of being rewarded with the CIPS Supply Management Awards Europe 2018 for the Best Procurement Consultancy Project, was just a great beginn for the 2 days TtT workshop.
“LAP is the answer to what Agile Procurement should look like! Some companies in Russia already want to pilot LAP.”
The first 9 candidates for Certified Lean-Agile Procurement Trainers were hand picked and on invitation only. They all are experts in their field and have the same agile mindset and values as we have. It turned out, that this awesome experience in one room lead immediately to new ideas.
We have worked on the following topics:
Starting to form the tribe, our vision, mission & values
the Lean Procurement Canvas in depth
Barclays story + Q&A with Phil Thomas, Managing Director - Head of Global Sourcing at Barclays
Lean Procurement Canvas & Lean-Agile Procurement applied
Pitching the Award-winning CKW Case to the UK management team of Barclays
Sharing Exercises & Cases between the trainers
Our operation system@LAP Alliance
We create our own LAP1 2-days certification workshop based on the Learning Objectives
Phil is well know in the procurement community for his radical reorganization at Barclays Procurement around commodity (digital self-services) and complexity with Pods (cross-functional teams).
Source: Barclays & LAP Alliance
He and his UK Management Team gave us insights on how they managed the transformation, their current status and future plans at Barclays (3+5). The neo-Trainers have got a lot of insights from first hands and gave their feedback to the folks from Barclays. Both sides agreed, that the two sessions were very valuable and should be continued in the future.
“It was great to work with like minded people to understand a practical Lean-Agile Procurement approach to this critical function. I came away prepared to lead others through this streamlined thorough process.”
From now on we‘ll drive the movement together forward on a global scale with the help of highly skilled agile and lean experts, that will support their customers achieving twice the value in half the time. The countries covered so far are CH, DE, FR, UK, USA, RU. The trainers represent alliances such as Scrum Alliance, Scrum.Org, SCRUM@Scale, Scrum@Hardware, Lean Six Sigma, SAFe, Management3.0, ICAgile etc.
Find details about the new Certified Lean-Agile Procurement Trainers here:
https://www.lean-agile-procurement.com/list-of-trainers/
Their workshops will be published soon here:
https://www.lean-agile-procurement.com/workshops-events/
Every trainer acts as an agile coach too and will support their customers in establishing their first pilots with Lean-Agile Procurement in procurement / sales / account management. LAP is not just an approach for procurement only, but adds new capabilities to your agile product teams too. Rather, it is a tool to cope with the increasing complexity and uncertainty associated with strategic partners towards true business agility along the entire value chain.
“Complex sourcing made simple”
We’ve got a lot of new friends and we’re looking forward to their success stories, but much more to the next retreat in Côte d’Azur, France :-)
Some impressions from the TtT workshop
Going Digital, Procurement in Kanton Zug
Repeating last year’s very successful event, CIPS-Switzerland is teaming up with the Technologie Forum Zug and the Economic Promotion team of the Kanton Zug for this special Procurement & Supply Chain (P&SC) event. Speakers include leaders from companies with regional or global headquarters in the Canton around the theme of “Going Digital, flowdays took place with a booth to represent the disruptive approach lean-agile procurement.
Repeating last year’s very successful event, CIPS-Switzerland is teaming up with the Technologie Forum Zug and the Economic Promotion team of the Kanton Zug for this special Procurement & Supply Chain (P&SC) event. Speakers include leaders from companies with regional or global headquarters in the Canton around the theme of “Going Digital, flowdays took place with a booth to represent the disruptive approach lean-agile procurement.
Procurement in Kanton Zug”. It is well known that Zug is fast emerging as a leading P&SC cluster in Europe. In addition to hosting drinks and snacks to facilitate participant networking – several Zug-based Procurement Service Companies with be available for follow-up discussions (including Consultants and Headhunters).
The speakers where:
Mr André Wismer, Biogen Switzerland AG, Product Specialist
André Wismer holds a Bachelor degree in BA with a focus on International Management and Economics (IM&E) from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), Switzerland, and an MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Cranfield University, UK. His presentation at this CIPS event was about his research obtained during his MSc thesis project and provide interesting insights based on Swiss based companies.
Conclusions: Find his main findings below:
Mrs. Leong, Cecilia, Olin Corporation, Head of Regional Purchasing EMEAI & APAC and Global Business Excellence
Head of Regional Purchasing EMEAI & APAC and Global Business Excellence Leader with Olin Corporation, Cecilia has throughout her career provided the transformational leadership. This has enabled operations to become effective and efficient commercial organizations. She has excellent cross-functional global program and project management skills, and has built a year-over-year portfolio of achievements includes million-dollar revenue and profit gains, operational improvements and innovative solutions that set the stage for both immediate and long-term growth.
Conclusions: Before introducing a new, expensive system for procurement check what your CRM could serve you. Cecilia showed, that the roles and the requirements towards a system are quite similar for a marketeer and a procurement manager.
Mr Adrian Doyle, Amgen Europe, Global Strategic Sourcing, Head of Region Europe
Having over 17 years of procurement experience in the pharma industry Adrian has a wealth of commercial category, regional and global sourcing expertise. Starting in the UK with GlaxoSmithKline, about 4 years ago he moved to Switzerland to join Amgen’s Strategic Sourcing leadership team.
During the Networking and Interaction session flowdays was present to introduce the procurement experts into lean-agile procurement. The echo was awesome, as we've got even 5 feedbacks like this:
“lean-agile procurement is a real disruption, you should have been talking about before”
a special thank to John Everett, Branch leader at CIPS and organizer of the event!
The agenda was:
17.30 Event Registration and Refreshments
18.00 Event Start and Introduction
18.05 Mr Andre Wismer, Biogen Switzerland AG - Digital Transformation of Swiss Procurement
18.35 Mrs Cecilia Leong, Olin Corporation - Procurement can be early adopters
19.05 Mr Adrian Doyle, Amgen Europe - Procurement enabling digital engagement
19.30 Networking and Interaction with Zug based companies including:
Customer Value Management GmbH
EMEA Recruitment GmbH
Deloitte Consulting AG
Flowdays
BSMA-Europe
Performex Consult GmbH
21.00 Event Close
Drinks and snacks will be provided during the newtworking session.