Too many organizations are treating collaboration and innovation as separate efforts. But real breakthroughs come when the two work hand in hand – It will be won by companies that build highly collaborative relationships to unlock the full potential of their partners, suppliers, and employees. – Kate Vitasek (LinkedIn Post, March 17, 2025)
Kate Vitasek’s recent post – which you can access through the link above, started the following meaningful conversation via the post’s discussion.
JWH – Wait a second, Kate Vitasek, are you suggesting that Great tech can’t overcome poor communication and collaboration within a company? – https://bit.ly/3BgUVyy
Zaven Avagyan – Jon W. Hansen absolutely, no great tech is ever able to replace communication.
Kate Vitasek thanks for the post, you’re talking about value creation. This is one of key supply chain functions. With smart partnerships you can have a 1000 lightbulb moments instead of one.
JWH – Zaven Avagyan, to your point, I will share this post from 2014 regarding a Proxima panel discussion that included myself, Peter Smith, Guy Strafford, and Scott Sparks.
During the discussion, Peter talked about the now-ubiquitous Kraft Heinz upside-down ketchup bottle – https://bit.ly/3uKbrUE
I have known (and met Kate) for some time. Throughout the noise of the AI hype cycle, she has been quietly looking beyond the technology to highlight that communication and collaboration have been, and will always be, crucial to ProcureTech’s implementation and success in any era.
In short, the human-led, agent-based development and implementation model must be the starting point!
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Kate Vitasek, Collaborative Relations, and the Agent-Based Model
Posted on March 18, 2025
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Too many organizations are treating collaboration and innovation as separate efforts. But real breakthroughs come when the two work hand in hand – It will be won by companies that build highly collaborative relationships to unlock the full potential of their partners, suppliers, and employees. – Kate Vitasek (LinkedIn Post, March 17, 2025)
Kate Vitasek’s recent post – which you can access through the link above, started the following meaningful conversation via the post’s discussion.
JWH – Wait a second, Kate Vitasek, are you suggesting that Great tech can’t overcome poor communication and collaboration within a company? – https://bit.ly/3BgUVyy
Zaven Avagyan – Jon W. Hansen absolutely, no great tech is ever able to replace communication.
Kate Vitasek thanks for the post, you’re talking about value creation. This is one of key supply chain functions. With smart partnerships you can have a 1000 lightbulb moments instead of one.
JWH – Zaven Avagyan, to your point, I will share this post from 2014 regarding a Proxima panel discussion that included myself, Peter Smith, Guy Strafford, and Scott Sparks.
During the discussion, Peter talked about the now-ubiquitous Kraft Heinz upside-down ketchup bottle – https://bit.ly/3uKbrUE
I have known (and met Kate) for some time. Throughout the noise of the AI hype cycle, she has been quietly looking beyond the technology to highlight that communication and collaboration have been, and will always be, crucial to ProcureTech’s implementation and success in any era.
In short, the human-led, agent-based development and implementation model must be the starting point!
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