“Jon W. Hansen – For me, as a CPO, the challenge was (almost) never that vertical solutions did not go deep enough but rather to see the totality of activity/data across my function. That being said funding and focus very often goes to solutions solving a single problem really well. Developing things that work well across the many procurement verticals take a long time and is hard to execute.” – Anders Lillevik, Focal Point
My Response
Anders Lillevik, your statement about “seeing the totality and activity” stands out. It is worth noting because it speaks to the heart and the challenge of achieving supply chain agility and resilience without understanding, communication, and collaboration involving all stakeholder agents.
Watch the following video, and note that had I myopically solved the immediate “perceived single problem” with the DND MRO program, the initiative would have been a collective failure, no matter how well the system worked – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49BS-MkGoak.
That is why AI operating systems are critical. They provide the “technical” foundational framework to understand, manage, and expand resilience and adaptability based on a clear end vision for each strategic step.
However, the key is to move beyond equation-based siloed problem solving, which is the challenge to which your “hard to execute” statement carries the most weight. It is not a technology foundation problem alone but a communication and collaboration problem within too many enterprises.
This is why people like Kate Vitasek (Getting To We) and Andy Akrouche MBA, RCCM-I, CSM (Relational Model) insights from over a decade ago are more important today than ever.
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Posted on November 11, 2024
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“Jon W. Hansen – For me, as a CPO, the challenge was (almost) never that vertical solutions did not go deep enough but rather to see the totality of activity/data across my function. That being said funding and focus very often goes to solutions solving a single problem really well. Developing things that work well across the many procurement verticals take a long time and is hard to execute.” – Anders Lillevik, Focal Point
My Response
Anders Lillevik, your statement about “seeing the totality and activity” stands out. It is worth noting because it speaks to the heart and the challenge of achieving supply chain agility and resilience without understanding, communication, and collaboration involving all stakeholder agents.
Watch the following video, and note that had I myopically solved the immediate “perceived single problem” with the DND MRO program, the initiative would have been a collective failure, no matter how well the system worked – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49BS-MkGoak.
That is why AI operating systems are critical. They provide the “technical” foundational framework to understand, manage, and expand resilience and adaptability based on a clear end vision for each strategic step.
However, the key is to move beyond equation-based siloed problem solving, which is the challenge to which your “hard to execute” statement carries the most weight. It is not a technology foundation problem alone but a communication and collaboration problem within too many enterprises.
This is why people like Kate Vitasek (Getting To We) and Andy Akrouche MBA, RCCM-I, CSM (Relational Model) insights from over a decade ago are more important today than ever.
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