ACCENTURE

— Kai Nowosel , Chief Procurement Officer , Accenture

the business . That ’ s one vision .

“ The second vision is linked to the moment you ’ re sitting with the business and identifying new opportunities and optimising current initiatives and delivery ,” he explains . “ But to do that , you also need to understand what is currently delivered . So , you need to get much closer to the business . At Accenture , we call it ‘ rotating to the New ’. If you want to be more agile , you need to be faster . You need to be smarter in anticipating things , because just running a process faster doesn ’ t make you better . To anticipate what ’ s happening , and to already include that into your process , makes it much easier to work with a procurement function – you already have a solution before the concrete demand really happens . So , I want to drive my function into something of understanding and