What Google’s Approach Reveals About Transformation Summary Digital transformation in procurement has focused heavily on technology, data, and process. But closing CPO Outlook 2025, Suzana Drakulic from Google Workspace highlighted an element that rarely appears in implementation roadmaps: trust. Drawing on Google’s approach to AI adoption, she explored why psychological safety, bold leadership, and the […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: From Fragmented to Focused: Elkem’s Supplier Management Journey
What does it take to create a shared, structured way of working with your suppliers — defining risk, mitigating actions and following up ESG, and performance? EBG | Network, together with Elkem, Ivalua and PwC invite you to a highly relevant and practical live webinar. Date: November 12th, 2025Time: 10:00-10:45 AM CET (we will extend the session […]
EBG | Webinar: Hidden Risks and Opportunities in Tail Spend Management
The New Urgency Around Tail Spend For years, tail spend has been seen as a transactional nuisance—an area too complex to manage effectively. But today, AI, automation and regulatory demands are reshaping how procurement leaders tackle tail spend. It’s no longer just about cost reduction; it’s about visibility, risk management and business resilience. This webinar […]
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Trust as Infrastructure: The Missing Element in Procurement’s AI Journey
What Google’s Approach Reveals About Transformation Summary Digital transformation in procurement has focused heavily on technology, data, and process. But closing CPO Outlook 2025, Suzana Drakulic from Google Workspace highlighted an element that rarely appears in implementation roadmaps: trust. Drawing on Google’s approach to AI adoption, she explored why psychological safety, bold leadership, and the […]
AI in Procurement: The Nordic Wake-Up
Thriving Amid Disruption Means Starting Now Summary At CPO Outlook 2025, Suzana Drakulic from Google Workspace delivered a closing session that held a mirror up to Nordic procurement’s AI adoption journey. Her message was direct: the Nordics are lagging behind in AI adoption, and the cost of status quo is higher than most organizations calculate. […]
Procurement Professionals on Easing Workload and Driving Impact
Analysis of CPO Outlook 2025 Open-Ended Survey Responses | EBG Network When asked what would most help ease their workload or make their role more impactful, procurement professionals offered candid responses that reveal both persistent frustrations and clear pathways forward. What emerges from these responses is not a list of complaints but rather a coherent […]
Why Data Quality Keeps Appearing in Every Transformation Conversation
From CPO Outlook survey responses to workshop mapping exercises, data challenges emerge as the persistent barrier beneath every other transformation struggle Something interesting happened when we aggregated findings from CPO Outlook 2025 in Stockholm and EBG | Xperience events across three Nordic cities. Different questions, different formats, different participants – yet the same fundamental issue […]
From Reactive to Proactive: Why Supply Chain Risk Intelligence Has Become Mission-Critical
Prewave returns as Platinum Partner for CPO Outlook 2026, bringing four years of practitioner insights on moving beyond Tier 1 visibility When Prewave first partnered with CPO Outlook in 2023, the conversation around supply chain risk was already shifting. Three years later, that shift has become a transformation. The gap between organizations with deep supply […]
Tackling Tail Spend at Scale at CPO Outlook 2026
EBG | Network welcomes Candex as a first-time exhibitor at CPO Outlook 2026. This tail spend management specialist brings a global solution to one of procurement’s most persistent operational challenges. Tail spend remains a blind spot for many procurement organizations. The numbers from EBG | Network surveys tell a consistent story. Resource overload affects 62% […]
What Procurement Leaders Actually Want to Fix: Patterns from the Technology Wish List
When you ask what single technology challenge they’d solve, procurement leaders reveal more about transformation barriers than any survey question could When we asked 58 procurement professionals at CPO Outlook 2025 to name the single technology challenge they would solve if they could, something unexpected happened. They didn’t describe aspirational capabilities or cutting-edge innovations. Instead, […]
Reinventing Procurement, Part 3: Turning Vision into Action
How to Start Constructing Strategic Procurement Identity Based on CPO Outlook 2025 Survey | 58 procurement leaders from 47 Nordic companies Analytical Note: Anna Bjärkerud, founder of EBG | Network, has a behavioral science-focused Bachelor’s degree. She focused on how social construction can help explain resistance to organizational change. This final article in the series […]
EBG | Xperience 2026 in HELSINKI | STOCKHOLM & MALMÖ
EBG | Xperience STHLM: Empowering Procurement in Imperfect Conditions
Reflections from EBG | Xperience STHLM 2025 On April 10th in Stockholm, procurement leaders from across industries came together for a powerful day of open, honest dialogue about what it really takes to evolve procurement — not in theory, but in practice. Hosted by EBG | Network, the event was designed not around best-case blueprints […]
EBG | Xperience in Stockholm
Transform your procurement into a strategic powerhouse! Explore data-driven insights, supplier partnerships and sustainability strategies to drive real value. Learn more and join us! … Next-Gen Procurement Strategies in Stockholm When: April 10th 2025 Start-Finish: 09:30-15:00 Welcome receptionIntroductionTopic Insights & Reflections IGroup Discussions x 2LunchTopic Insights & Reflections IIGroup Discussions x 2Summary Where: Scandic Anglais, […]
EBG | Xperience GBG: Turning Risk Complexity into Actionable Procurement Strategies
On May 6th, procurement professionals gathered in Gothenburg for a fully booked EBG | Xperience day focused on ‘Knowing Your Supply and Suppliers: Managing Risks, Resilience and Sustainability’. A day centered on navigating the evolving risk, resilience, and sustainability landscape. Ahead of the event, attendees were asked what they most wanted to explore—and the answers […]
Procurement Risk & Resilience in Focus at EBG | Xperience GBG 2025
On May 6th, 30 senior procurement practitioners will gather in Gothenburg for a full-day, hands-on workshop. The event is fully booked — and for good reason. If you want to join we can just about make room for a couple of more but need to know now. Procurement teams today are navigating a perfect storm […]
EBG | Xperience CPH: From Potential to Practical AI
On May 8th, 2025, procurement leaders gathered in central Copenhagen for a fully booked EBG | Xperience day. The theme? AI-Powered Procurement Transformation. The aim? To explore how AI and GenAI might help turn complexity into clarity—while acknowledging that most companies are still at the very beginning of their journey. From the very start of […]
Procurement in 2025: Turning AI Hype into Real Impact
🔍 EBG | Xperience CPH | AI-Powered Procurement Transformation Why This Workshop Matters — Now More Than Ever Across the Nordics and beyond, procurement leaders agree: AI and GenAI will reshape how organizations operate. But most also acknowledge they are far from ready. According to BCG’s 2024 report “GenAI Complacency: The Costly Inaction in the […]
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EBG | Play: From Fragmented to Focused: Elkem’s Supplier Management Journey
EBG | Play: From Fragmented to Focused: Elkem’s Supplier Management Journey
EBG | Play: Unlocking Tail Spend: Risks, Compliance & Strategy
A Recap from the EBG | Webinar with Medius Tail spend has long been viewed as “too fragmented,” “too low in value,” or “just too hard” to manage. But as the webinar host Russell Jaques pointed out, that narrative is changing—and fast. “If we can’t see it, we can’t control it—and that’s where the risk […]
EBG | Play: AI in Procurement: Unlocking Efficiency, Trust and Strategic Value
What Did We Learn from the AI-Powered Procurement Webinar? Procurement and finance leaders today face a perfect storm of challenges: tightening margins, increasing compliance demands and the ongoing struggle to do more with fewer resources. While AI and Generative AI offer unprecedented opportunities, many organizations are still in the early stages of adoption, questioning where […]
EBG | Play: Mastering Supply Chain Sustainability
EBG | Network recently hosted a webinar titled “Supply Chain Sustainability: How to overcome Critical Challenges in Data, Compliance and Real-Time Risk Management“, enabled by IntegrityNext. Industry leaders shared insights into the complexities of sourcing, procurement and supply chain in a world increasingly shaped by sustainability goals and regulatory demands. Hosted by Anna Bjärkerud, the […]
EBG | Play: Leveraging GenAI to Re-invent the Role of Procurement
Generative AI (GenAI) is capturing attention across industries and procurement is no exception. During this recent EBG | Webinar, experts from Accenture and Ivalua shared their experiences and insights on how procurement teams can explore and leverage GenAI to enhance operations and strategies. Hosted by Anna Bjärkerud, the session combined practical demonstrations, real-time polling and […]
EBG | Play: Optimizing Spend Management challenging existing processes?
This webinar explored one of the most pressing challenges in modern organizations – optimizing spend management. Finance and procurement professionals gained actionable insights on leveraging advanced technologies like AI and machine learning to streamline processes, enhance compliance and achieve better spend visibility. Presented by Carin Collin, Global VP of Customer Success, Medius and hosted by […]