IBM and Cognitive Procurement at the Global Procurement Tech Summit

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Going back decades,IBM自身的采购努力证明了变革性不仅适用于大蓝本身但是for all of procurement。部分地归于已故基因石英史的思想和遗产 - 可以说是该行业拥有最有影响力的CPO - IBM为该技术，制造和服务行业带来了一系列的新采购理念。它不会停止。

下一个:认知采购

在ISM并花费很重要全球采购技术峰会this week in Baltimore, IBM’s Vice President of Global Procurement Dan Carrell will be giving a keynote that will raise some eyebrows. Even if you’re not an IBM customer, supplier or peer — and chances are you’re at least one of the three — his talk is truly can’t miss stuff if you care about the future of procurement and how technology will lead the way to new possibilities, savings and value generation.

Dan's keynote, titled Watson Analytics & Cognitive Procurement, will go beyond just talking about the marvels of Watson. Rather, the focus of his discussion is on putting a new way of procurement capability and thinking at the core of the business. In his talk, Dan will share how “IBM is on a path of continuous transformation, with advanced analytics powering our new era supply chain.”

This transition is about how procurement can fundamentally alter its value equation from the business, and in IBM’s case, how the function is helping drive the change “from hardware to solution company” and from “reactive and inflexible to predictive, transparent and cognitive.”

注意。它比IBM正在申请，销售和合作今天获得访问的技术解决方案更重要。如果你愿意，这是关于更聪明的 - 或者更多的认知。

但是什么是认知采购？在丹的话语中，认知采购和认知技术是关于：

• Using systems and approaches that are able to learn behavior through education
• Managing structured and unstructured data
• Supporting forms of expression that are more natural for human interaction
• Continuing to evolve as computers experience new information, new scenarios and new responses
• Unlocking new insights and enabling optimized outcomes

这是令人兴奋的东西。理解是至关重要的。这就是为什么#ProcureTech2016是一个运动，而不仅仅是一种技术峰会。