CRO-to-CRO Video Series: Episode 5 Helps Procurement Organizations Drive Business Value

Over the course of the first four episodes in the video discussion series titled “Chief Research Officer to Chief Research Officer,” Michel Janssen and Pierre Mitchell have run the gamut of where digital procurement transformation stands today.

“In our previous installments of the series, we were talking a lot about the complexity of the digital and services ecosystems,” says Mitchell, chief research officer of Spend Matters. “There are thousands of providers and lots of sourcing models.”

So in the final episode, Mitchell and Janssen, chief research guru of Everest Group, a research and management consulting firm based in Dallas, Texas, get into more detail on how to get some deeper intelligence around the providers, how to leverage that, and then how to tap that innovative ecosystem that they’ve been exploring with viewers to drive business value.

Watch Episode 5 below: 

Episode 5: Moving From Knowledge-Sharing to Gaining Business Value

The CRO-to-CRO Video Series Overview

With a combined six decades of experience between them (the “dinosaurs that we are!” as Mitchell puts it), both CROs are able to view various market trends from a unique perch. The goal of the video discussion series is to drill down into “the who, the what and the how” behind the hottest trends in digital procurement transformation.

Looking more broadly at the arc of the whole series, Mitchell and Janssen set out to cover:

• Introducing the digital transformation ecosystem. What are the biggest investment priorities for service providers and enterprises? Watch Episode 1 here.
• Examining the changing role of procurement. The role itself is changing and expanding; what does that mean to procurement’s value creation — and impact to risk? What are the three key dimensions of digital procurement trends? Watch Episode 2 here.
• Exploring the different layers of digital capability platforms. What is available to buy? What are the different ways to bundle/procure digital solutions? Who is responsible for making the digital decisions within the enterprise? Watch Episode 3 here.
• Focusing on Contingent Workforce Management as a category example. What are the key challenges to effective talent management? Is there a need to rethink the approach to the entire talent model? Watch Episode 4 here.
• Concluding with how they can help organizations in their digital transformation journey. Watch Episode 5 here — or above!