Lumachain首席执行官贾米拉·戈登（Jamila Gordon）谈到在索马里长大，逃离内战，最终创办一家企业，帮助遏制人口贩运。2019年9月18日，她在芝加哥Procurious“大创意峰会”上发表讲话。（JP莫里斯照片/支出事项）
When thecity of big shoulders上周举办了大型想法峰会，采购管理员拉皮条的事件在芝加哥发生了许多激动人心的事情，也产生了一系列强有力的见解。
Tania Seary, founder of the UK-based professional development organization Procurious, assembled an array of speakers whose thought-provoking sessions imparted plenty of big ideas — from the latest in neuroscience to how procurement technology and policies affect issues like human trafficking and forced labor in supply chains.
Amanda Prochaska, founder and CEO of High Performance Procurement, did a fabulous job of moderating the sessions and sparking conversation about the topics. She challenged the nearly 50 attendees to make sure they came away with at least one great idea that they could take action on when they went back to work.
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Some of the highlights of the sessions included Professor Moran Cerf’s discussions of neuroscience and the technological advances coming from that research. A question that drives his research also seems fitting for improving procurement: “How can we use how the brain works to make better decisions and be more efficient?”
Dawn Tiura, the founder of SIG (Sourcing Industry Group), kept the discussion moving most of the day with her input as an audience member and as the leader of two sessions.
Tiura’s session on procurement personnel noted that successfully deploying digital transformation requires that companies realize that people may not adopt technology at the same rate or the same way. As an example, she suggested that we think of how different generations — working in the same office — communicate with one another and what the implications of that style is.
Her four generations of workers are:
- Write to me— the oldest set
- Call me- 年龄较大
- 电子邮件me- 更年轻
- 发短信给我— the youngest
Tiura also had a session on third-party risk and the need to learn more about your suppliers. She summed up the theme of it with this big idea:
“你会震惊你对供应商不了解的内容。”
Dan Adams, from the CLM specialistIcertis那talked about a procurement-specific trend — contract-centric sourcing. The idea is that technology is at the stage now that contracts can be put at the center of all transactions. Doing so will pull contracts from dusty file cabinets and make them dynamically connected to the business. (It’s a concept that Spend Matters’ Chief Research Officer Pierre Mitchell has been exploring in his PRO subscription series on“商业价值管理。”的）
在一次令人痛心的会议上，Lumachain首席执行官贾米拉·戈登讲述了她在索马里内战中幸存，但在肯尼亚贫民区挣扎的故事。她的许多兄弟姐妹情况更糟，被迫进入人口贩运系统，并将他们扩散到中东和欧洲。
但戈登最终来到了澳大利亚。在那里，她结婚了，学习了英语，继续深造，开始了采购生涯。在为包括Quantus在内的几家公司工作后，她决定创办Lumachain，这是一家提高供应链知名度的科技公司，其目标也是根除人口贩运。
She showed that having a positive attitude can help overcome hardships.
“我一直很沮丧，”她谈到独自生活在贫民区时说，“但我表现得越开心，人们就越想和我在一起。”
这种态度帮助她遇到了帮助她的人，包括一位成为她丈夫的澳大利亚人。
人群采购理念
在每个有趣的会议之间，阿曼达·普莱克斯加州担任“导游”，促进讨论和帮助观众专业人士的人群源头。这导致了一个强大的想法列表，而不仅仅是一个外卖，即观众会员被要求找到。
The Big Ideas are:
- Invest in your procurement teams.
- 采购技术应易于使用。
- Your different solutions should be integrated to each other.
- Transparency of costs
- “为什么不可能？”是一个很好的问题。（阿曼达问：“我们多久询问我们的员工，我们的供应商，我们的利益相关者???”）
- “We are dinosaurs.” (Said in relation to the wave of neuroscience technology that’s coming.)
- “现状！”（格兰特·克拉克（Rick Clark）引用了Thornton LLP的技术和变革的心态，由Rick Thornton的高级总监，战略采购和采购服务报价）
- 人们错误地认为做好事成本更高。
- 采购数据不仅仅用于采购，这是为整个业务的。
- Be aware and share ideas.
- Get success stories that you can share with the C-suite execs. Tell stories, and that becomes the brand of procurement — not the traditional cost-cutting role or PO pushing image of procurement.
- 有一个全面的人才战略,国际扶轮ght personnel with the right skills to run the digitally transformed business.
- Improve your AQ: adaptability quotient (akin to IQ and EQ emotional quotient, emotional intelligence)
- 采购is a value-creating machine.
- Need more storytelling
- 对生活和工作更加好奇。
- Soft skills are often overlooked.
- 了解风险以及如何减轻它们。
- Talent shortage requires employers and employees to be diligent in finding right fit.
- 让自己有用和梦想大。（当他父亲送她离开索马里的内战时，她爸爸的Lumachain首席执行官Jamila Gordon的建议。）
- 最后：了解所有这些大型思想如何与提供的数字转型相关，以解决采购的问题并将其推动到未来。
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