Dunedin City Council’s experience, reflections, and learnings
In this 45min webinar you’ll learn how Dunedin City Council significantly reduced the traditional procurement time taken to appoint a software partner through the Lean Agile Procurement methodology in their adoption of a contract management solution.
There’s no doubt the intention of Lean Agile Procurement is faster go-to-market and quick adoption of a preferred solution. But is there a competitive advantage and does it actually have a positive impact on stakeholders and teams?
In the process of transforming their contract and supplier management, Dunedin City Council were not the first New Zealand council to run a Lean Agile Procurement process, but they’ll share what they did differently that made it a successful process.
Join Serge from Dunedin City Council along with the key partners in the process, Silverio Governo from Portt, an Advanced company and Ross Darrah from Pareto Toolbox as they chat all things Lean Agile Procurement, their outcomes, the learnings and what they would do differently next time.
Of course, the big question is, will there be a next time? Register to find out.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn the benefits and shortcomings of Lean Agile Procurement
- Learn from Dunedin’s experience
- Gain visibility of the process to see if it’s suitable to run at your council
- Obtain headway on your own processes
About the Presenters:
Serge Kolman
Procurement and Contracts Manager, Dunedin City Council
Serge has been at DCC for nearly 5 years now in this role with DCC wide responsibility for Procurement and Contract Management.
Before joining DCC he was in various procurement roles in the New Zealand Health industry as procurement manager for Southern DHB, assisted in setting up the national shared service Procurement for the health sector and then a regional relationship manager for the South Island DHB’s and a short stint as Category Manager. He moved to New Zealand in 2007 and worked in the Telecommunications industry in the Netherlands in various operational roles including Procurement.
Silverio Governo
Country Director, Portt, an Advanced company
A seasoned relationship builder, Silverio has built a strong track record in helping organizations in both private and public sector around the globe leverage the power of digitization and business process improvement to deliver key results and overcome some of the most prevalent challenges. Across his more than 12 years' experience in the SaaS landscape, Dunedin City Council's Lean Agile Procurement process was the first he had ever encountered, completely changing his perspective on a tender process.
Ross Darrah,
Founder, Pareto Toolbox
Ross Darrah has pioneered the development of the procurement discipline in New Zealand and leads major procurement efforts with key organisations. Ross’ experience in procurement spans many years back to when he was Procurement Director for Lion Nathan. He has been fortunate to work across a wide variety of sectors including agriculture, infrastructure, education, finance, utilities, local and central government, retail, manufacturing and not-for-profit. With Ross’ approach he has delivered real solutions that have a direct and positive impact to the bottom line. His ability to create simplicity across every aspect of business has meant he’s really leaned into this Lean Agile Procurement process to assist Dunedin City Council in their venture to go-to-market more efficiently.
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