STAYING COMPETITIVE WAS NEVER AS DIFFICULT AS TODAY!

We all need to improve how we find new internal & external partners, services and/or products. Because of the increasing market demand we have to radically improve time-to-market - DAYS/WEEKS from idea to contract will become the new NORMAL!-As Pete Behrens - Board member ScrumAlliance nailed it: We offer with "Lean-Agile Procurement a new approach, that reduces and distributes risk through incremental and value-added funding for improved business outcomes."-This offers new possibilities to agile teams/organizations and procurement/sales functions to keep up or even stay relevant for the business!

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  Source: LAP Alliance

  AFTER THIS WORKSHOP YOU'LL...

  • have applied the Lean Procurement Canvas and run through the disruptive approach Lean-Agile Procurement with one of YOUR own cases
  • leverage hands-on agile techniques for more effective alingment around value, stakeholder mangement, sourcing, contracting & teamsetup
  • know with the help of the Heat Map where to start to make your agile team, business unit, function, organisation more competitive through significantly improved time-to-market with similar or better quality
  • be a Certified Lean-Agile Procurement Practitioner (Credential 1), with a one-year membership in the LAP community

YOU SHOULD JOIN

The workshop is designed for an interdisciplinary audience from every level of your organization no matter if you're on the buyer/supplier side, or in public/private industrie. You should join if you are:

• are a leader that drives change and is looking for the new way of working even beyond company boraders, e.g. as CxO, decision taker, process owner, scrum master, agile coach or change agent
• commercial responsible and look for more effective approaches to find partners/products/services, that minizes risk & maximizes business value/time-to-market e.g. as a commercial manager, business unit/product owner, head of Innovation/Delivery, strategic buyer
• responsible for compliance/governance and want to support more agile contracts/partnerships by still being compliant in a highly regulated or public environment

WHAT MAKES THIS WORKSHOP SPECIAL

• Apply YOUR own sourcing case during the workshop using the Lean Procurement Canvas. We will spend almost the whole 2nd day on this supported with one of our success stories.
• Self-assess YOUR organisation with the help of our Heat Map, so that you know exactly where to start after the workshop.
• a lot of learning & sharing opportunities by exchanging between the participants, elaborating about each others cases, challenges, pitfalls, etc.

OUR WORKSHOP STYLE

We like to get you the max out of it and adapt the agenda even towards your current topics, challenges and questions. We believe in an interactive workshop style with less slides, where we spend aprox 1/3 of our time in theory and the rest in applicable exercises, stories, exchanging experiences, etc. Most important it's always also a lot of FUN!

Image source: LAP Alliance

To support your online learning experience we’re using the latest technology like zoom.com incl. breakout-rooms and mural.co for our online whiteboard for maximizing interaction & exchange.

Certification

Passing the requirements of this workshop you'll become a "Certified Lean-Agile Procurement Practitioner (Credential 1)" issued by the LAP Alliance

WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY

DAY 1: Understand how digitalization has changed procurement forever

What today´s purchasers and providers have to improve

Together, we discuss current developments in the market and your own organization’s partner ecosystem to assess advantages and disadvantages of common procurement.

Which improved solutions does the tech landscape offer today?

Take a tour of modern procurement’s status quo & see the industry trends driving the need for a new approach in sourcing services & products.

What's different with Lean-Agile Procurement & where to apply it?

Understand Lean-Agile Procurement as the approach, application areas of it and why collaboration is the key to build a partnership.

YOUR LEVEL & PREREQUISITES

Beginner to Expert - This workshop is valuable for lean/agile experts as well as procurement/sales beginners to expert. Basic knowledge in procurement, sales, or partner management and/or agile are an advantage. Take the unique opportunity to see the other perspectives and learn from each other!

Questions? We're here to help!

We help you to find a hotel near the workshop location and answer all other questions too!

• • Simon Reindl
  • E: simon.reindl@apd.coach
  • T: ++44 077 375 16521

We offer corporate training too

In-house workshops could be customized according needs. To get more informations about an in-house training please contact: info@apd.coach

One of our Awarded Success Story where we increased time-to-market by 400% (Link to Success Story &Press Release CKW Group)