*Bookings close at 12noon Thursday 11 August 2022 unless sold out prior*

This is a 1.5 Day Course delivered on Monday 15 & Tuesday 16 August 2022.

*Please note this Course runs from 9am to 4.00pm on the first day, and 9am to 1pm on the second day*

Overview:

If we take no risks, we are destined to only do what has been done before. When we need other businesses to help us research, innovate, break new ground or build new technology, we need to create business relationships that can thrive in uncertainty. Business agility and innovation can be hindered by traditional legal approaches to fixed scope, fixed price, fixed-deadline agreements. Agile agreements allow us to build strong relationship-focussed foundations for working together on what is yet unknown.

Procurement for government and large organisations traditionally keeps parties at arm’s length for the sake of commercial sensitivity and creating a level playing field. Agile Procurement is a methodology that reimagines procurement to focus on building strong relationships, allowing ideas that haven’t been asked for to be fully explored and get vendors and buyers to align and interact before making a decision.

Businesses who build agility into their relationships are able to create better opportunities from the relationships they have and what they uncover along the way..

Agile agreements and agile procurement are people-centred and adaptable approaches for delivering faster and happier outcomes and reducing risk.

Learning Outcomes: Part 1 : Agile Contracts

In Part 1 of this course with the discussion, case studies, practical exercises, tools and techniques you will have been exposed to you will enable you to:

Learn about how agile principles are shaping new approaches to business corporate functions.
Understand which parts of traditional contracts are decreasing your chance of success in innovation and things to avoid.
Reimagine the project management triangle of constraints.
Reduce risk by applying new techniques for managing risk in innovation and uncertainty,
Consider New Zealand examples of agile contract success and apply learnings to your own situations.
Build and design a simple agreement using a simple framework.
Learn how to brief your legal counsel and handle objections from traditional thinkers

Learning Outcomes Part 2 : Agile Procurement

Evaluate a traditional approach to procurement and apply opportunities to bring in agile and lean principles.
Learn a stepped approach to designing a new procurement strategy
Consider the preparation and foundations needed for agile procurement success.
Experience new ways of engaging and evaluating vendors through group exercises and consider how new approaches can bring added value to your business relationships.

Use metrics to measure the impact of agile procurement on business performance.

Facilitator

Louisa Taylor, Professor of Practice, is an innovation specialist and commercial futurist.

Her main areas of focus are developing fundamentals for innovation to flourish in organisations and developing people-centric commercial practices while experimenting with bleeding-edge technology.

She has held senior executive and commercial roles in technology businesses, rapid growth start-ups and used design thinking to redesign established businesses. Louisa was involved in developing the all-of-government innovation for service delivery design and delivering problem solving innovation frameworks for local government working on environmental and compliance issues. Louisa was chief operating officer for technology company Orbica and developed agile commercials for geospatial technology, deep learning and artificial intelligence and project managed the delivery of new SBAS satellite research.

Louisa has developed agile commercial and procurement practices to support innovation, research and development across government and private sector initiatives.

Louisa is the co-founder of the Periscope Collective, a member of the Institute of Directors, mentor for start-up businesses and teaches courses in Design Thinking and Innovation Fundamentals, Agile Commercials and Understanding the Cryptoverse.

This course is $1500pp including GST and Humanitix booking fees.

Course fees include morning tea & lunch for the first day and morning tea on day 2 (all dietary requirements can be catered for) and on-site parking.