Right Sourcing Bird's Eye View
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The document discusses 'right sourcing' as a modern approach to sourcing, emphasizing collaboration and a reevaluation of organizational strategies in a changing market. It critiques traditional sourcing methods as outdated, advocating for a shift towards a circular economy and digital innovation to enhance organizational effectiveness. The authors encourage a fundamental rethinking of sourcing practices to adapt to new demands and opportunities.
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Right Sourcing Bird's Eye View
- 1. Right Sourcing Seminar 7 June 2013 Utrecht If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands
- 2. Introduction Right Sourcing Enabling Collaboration Rien
- 3. Outsourcing is now yesterdays model Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, 2013
- 4. There is something happening
- 5. "Sourcing is a core capability of being a savvy enterprise - however big or small and of being a savvy consumer. The faster markets change, and the more options they offer us, the better at sourcing we all have to be" Chris Potts "Sourcing is becoming an increasingly complex task - one that requires fundamental changes in management thinking, radical new ways in which to communicate and deal with knowledge, and a totally new and different view of all the stakeholders" Fran巽ois Gossieaux Shortening time to market, increasing transaction volumes, 24 x 7 business at lesser cost puts a burden on organizations. The puzzle is how to organize an organization; which business functions are part of the own organization and which are part of the market.
- 6. Sourcing is the process of organizing and procuring an optimal combination of people, components and services inside and outside an organization to produce and deliver products and services Our proposition is that the modern enterprise must fundamentally rethink its sourcing equation (Organization, People, Economics and Technology) to become or remain viable. We have dubbed this Right Sourcing.
- 7. Right Sourcing, a bird's eye view Right Sourcing Enabling Collaboration Rien Dijkstra/Pieter van der Ploeg
- 8. Sourcing: the dominant logic Dominant logic is a risk in rapidly changing environments But ... The dominant tendency of the hedgehog to roll for an upcoming fox itself is effective. With an oncoming car another measure would be better. The issue of Sourcing is often approached from a dominant logic, based on "as we always do" Sourcing = Outsourcing =Procurement Buy Deliver Customer ProviderSLA/Contract
- 9. Economy: the boundaries of the organization Value chain transition changing the identity and the boundaries of the organization From a linear economy with a artificial linear Value chain Based on Take, Make and Dispose Organizational boundaries based on focus on cost minimization To a circular economy with a Value grid Based on Take, Make and Re-Use Organizational boundaries based on focus maximum collaboration Origin of the prosumer
- 10. Technology: a Digital World Digitization put presure on old thoughts and methods From a physical/ industrial world CAPEX & OPEX driven With high Replication & Transportation cost Means of production for the happy few To a digital/virtual world OPEX driven With Replication & Transportation cost almost nil Consumerization of the means of production & knowledge have important implications for ideas about control, ownership & production
- 11. People: a Connected World From Closedness, Hierarchy & Uniformiteit to Openness, Collaboration & Diversity
- 12. Organization: a Wicked Organization Organizations are limited manageable t Organizations: contradictions and surprises Small actions: Large consequences Rationality decisions: limited by available money, time, knowledge and resources No 2nd chance
- 13. Right Sourcing Right Sourcing is a core competence, Right Sourcing is Management Innovation Make? Buy? Ally? Shoring?
- 14. Join us: LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/company/1599968) or Facebook (www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sourcing- Initiative/370041019775593) Or start a discussion about Right Sourcing on our website (www.sourcing- it.org) and invite other people to join.
- 15. Book is Available from E-tailers' websites like Amazon & Barnes and Noble, etc. ISBN-10: 1481792806 ISBN-13: 978-1481792806
- 16. Book is Available from E-tailers' websites like Amazon & Barnes and Noble, etc. ISBN-10: 1481792806 ISBN-13: 978-1481792806