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Digital transformation has become an important topic for most procurement teams today. As I advise procurement leaders on how to approach digital initiatives I find myself looking back on experiences from high school and college where I was lucky enough to participate in the digital transformation of an entire community of practice: competitive debate. While there are important differences between competitive debate and procurement, I believe that readers curious about digital transformation will find the lessons I learned during my time in debate both illuminating and extremely practical.

To understand long-term transformations in supply chain and procurement technology, supply chain professionals must be able to understand present trends so they can help shape future realities. Experts believe the following predictions are viable hypotheses that we should consider for 2030.

People who make forecasts about AI assume that because AI is a virtual machine (albeit an adaptive one), that it will be good at things we’ve come to know machines are good at and bad at everything else.

By Christian Ries

In building and scaling Arkestro, our team has worked hard to create an intentional culture where people are able to set individual and team goals that align with business metrics. We aim to build a company where anyone with vision and motivation who shares our values can do their best work, where we celebrate excellence and reward impact.

Being in the AI procurement software business means that our team gets an inside view into how business leaders across the industry are thinking about implementing AI in their enterprise. 

Edmund Zagorin
CEO & Founder

The other day I was chatting with a senior procurement executive at one of the niftier Bay Area technology unicorns (if you’re a millennial, you probably have their app on your phone) and the topic came up: what’s this whole procurement game really going to look like five or ten years from now?

Procurement leaders can learn from design thinking; it is a set of approaches to problem-solving. Long used by creatives, architects, brand strategists, writers, over the past ten years it has become popular among business executives and software developers. Why?

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