National Hospital Procurement Conference

Sydney

25-26 October, 2016

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Procurement Outside the Box Different Thinking for Different Outcomes Links & Poll Results

Elon Musk & SpaceX

International Astronautical Congress (Mexico), Musk unveils his plans to colonise Mars

Stanford eCorner, Early days of SpaceX

Airspace Magazine, “Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation”

Ah-Ha-Moments.net, Functional Fixedness & Motivation

Harvard Business Review, “Why we can’t see what’s right in front of us”

Best Practices are Stupid – 40 Ways to Out-innovate the competition, Stephen Shapiro

ABC (US), interview of Stephen Shapiro

Fortune.com, “Why your company probably can’t innovate”

Functional Fixedness

We hope you enjoyed our workshop. Here are links to articles, videos, books and other media that will help you think outside the box….

Creativity & Innovation

London Screenwriters Festival, John Cleese on creativity,

Harvard Business Review, “Why we can’t see what’s right in front of us”

Business Insider, “There's A Critical Difference Between Creativity and Innovation”, Drew Marshall

Harvard Business Review, “Find innovation where you least expect it”

Vested Sourcing, Case Studies

Vested: How P&G, McDonald's, and Microsoft are Redefining Winning in Business Relationships

Institute of Risk Management, Heathrow Terminal 5 - a new paradigm for major programme risk management

UK Government, Oil & Gas Supply Chain Code of Practice

NEC, NEC History

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, “NEC3—What is all the fuss about?”

Procurement

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Finding New Suppliers 5%

Procurement Skills 10%

Red Tape/ Bureaucracy 14%

Management Buy-In 33%

Culture 33%

Resource Time & Pressure

5%

If innovation was a magic wand, what area of procurement would you use it to improve?

0% 50%

Strongly Agree

Strongly Disagree

How do you feel about this statement: Best practice encourages and spreads innovation in procurement?

….results from on-the-day polling, and...

“Innovation requires persistence and the ability to be compelling in your argument “

Comment Wall (Anon.)

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….ways to encourage more innovative procurement.

1. Hire for non-procurement experience (so that Group Think doesn’t prevail)

2. Question why you do what you do (to keep established practices accountable for what they deliver)

3. Leave room for failure (so that your team learns to manage risk instead of avoiding it altogether)

4. Put principles before process (to let people adapt practices and still stay within the rules)

5. Rethink measurement and rewards (so that incentives don’t distract from creativity)

6. Share your vision and goals (to inform and inspire your team)

Six tips for more innovative procurement:

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