Innovative Procurement Practices

Dates

• Wednesday 13 September 2023 (bookings close at 12 noon Monday 11 September 2023 unless sold out prior)

Re-imagine your approach to contracts and procurement by becoming people-centred and adaptable resulting in faster, happier outcomes and reduced risk.

This one day course will help you learn how to create strong business relationships that allow for agility in contracts and procurement, something often hindered by traditional legal approaches.

What will you gain?

You will learn about agile contracts, enabling you to:

• Understand how agile principles are shaping new approaches to business corporate functions.
• Learn 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 from these to your own situations.
• Build and design agreements using a simple framework.
• Learn how to brief your legal counsel - and handle objections from traditional thinkers.

You will learn how to apply Agile and Lean principles to your procurement approach, enabling you to:

• 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.

Course structure

This one-day course uses group discussion, case studies, practical exercises and the sharing of tools and techniques to help attendees learn about Agile contracts. You will also evaluate a traditional approach to procurement and learn how to apply Agile and Lean principles.

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.

This course is $1150pp including GST and Humanitix booking fees.
Course fees include catering (all dietary requirements catered for), booking fees and on-site parking.