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Does Nowosel ever envisage a time in the future where we could have an AI CPO ? “ When I worked in consulting , I wrote a point of view on the ‘ organisation of one ’. And yes , it was a provocation , and I don ’ t think it will ever happen , because in every business you run , whether it ’ s procurement , whether it ’ s marketing , whether it ’ s sales , whether it ’ s R & D , we should never forget about the relationship component , and the human component . But will the role , or will the processes that we are currently performing , shift ? For sure , they will . Can an artificial intelligence machine negotiate as good as a human being ? I ’ m 100 % convinced they can . We ’ re seeing it already in the stock markets where we already have machines to machines . So why shouldn ’ t it happen in a quite common negotiation ? But that ’ s why I ’ m saying that procurement is moving to something else . The definition of procurement is not ‘ am I a better negotiator ?’ It is more , ‘ am I the better ecosystem manager ?’ Or , ‘ am I the better window to innovation ?’.”
It is possibly easy to theorise regarding future systems and processes , but is Nowosel currently putting these words into practice as CPO at Accenture ? “ Absolutely . That ’ s where our big partnerships sit , and where our benefit – where my benefit – is . I am sitting in a company that basically invents digital solutions for implementation . I have access to all that .”
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