Conference Day One - Wednesday 30 August
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08:15 | Registration and welcome coffee
08:50 | Opening remarks from the Chair
Jennie Vickers, Executive Director, New Zealand Defence Industry Association Inc
ENABLING TRANSFORMATION IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE:
09:00 | Our customer journey story – how to make procurement awesome
- Background – Procurement perceived as a compliant and administrative function
- Challenge – Transforming procurement from a tactical to a strategic function
- Innovation – Communicating procurement values beyond compliance
- Impact – Closer, cheaper, faster and yet proper
Sebastian Chua, Head of Procurement, Health Promotion Board, Singapore
09:30 | Increasing commercial acumen across an agency to improve government procurement outcomes
- Introducing a more commercial approach within government procurement divisions to achieve more efficient purchasing outcomes
- Learning how the private sector operates and what the public sector can learn from it to improve government procurement results
- Where and how can the public sector apply private sector best practices in a government environment
Sarah Cotgreave, Divisional Manager, Procurement, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
CASE STUDY:
10:00 | Health Alliance Transformation – improving the investor confidence rating
- Developing a stable, trusted and transparent framework for capital decision-making that is appropriate for the DHB environment
- Demystifying the capital investment framework – understanding the importance of efficient allocation of capital expenditure
- Ensuring value from government investments; implementing strategies and processes to improve your Investor Confidence Rating
- Tips and hints on risk management and allocation
Philip Healy, General Manager, Facilities and Asset Management, Counties Manukau Health
10:30 | Morning tea
CASE STUDY:
11:00 | Enabling procurement transformation in Fletcher Building
- People; process; systems – easy to transform – right?! Turning challenges into opportunities
- Challenges and lessons learned for transforming a global group into a focused team delivering real value
- Developing relationships to ensure the vision of “Building Better Together” is delivered in Procurement
Fiona Nissen, Procurement Excellence Manager, Fletcher Building
11:30 | Enterprise Thinking - Turning Rhetoric to Reality
- Discuss the core role procurement can play in championing an enterprise mindset to realise overall value
- Examine the potential pitfalls that besiege the application of this approach in practice
- Advocate strategies to overcome such obstacles
Honey Meares, Enterprise Alignment
12:00 | Networking lunch
SPOTLIGHT SESSION:
13:00 | Retaining your balance as a negotiator
- What could be your biggest vulnerability as a negotiator?
- How could you be encouraging aggressive behaviour from the other side?
- What key behaviours can help you bring calm to the conversation?
Stuart van Rij, Head Coach (Asia Pacific), Camp Negotiation Systems
BEST PRACTICES AND BENEFITS IN POLICY AND CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
13:40 | Providing insights into engaging with government procurement
- Present and generate discussion from an industry perspective on the merits of the NZ Government Procurement strategy
- What are the most successful approaches to drive value and competitive edge within the organisation?
- Best procurement practice and practicality vs government rules of sourcing
Tom Ireland, Major Projects Director, Aurecon
14:00 | Why procurement policy matters
- What is procurement policy and why do we need it?
- Influencing for socio-economic benefit - what’s hot what’s not
- How do we know when to follow or ‘bend’ the rules
- The joy and pain of ‘best practice’
Barbara Allen, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University Wellington
14:20 | Career advancement in procurement: Pathways to MCIPS
This session will focus on how you can advance your career and the best ways to do it.
- Overview of ways to achieve your MCIPS
- How does an ordinary person achieve their MCIPS
- Benefits of achieving your MCIPS
Mark Lamb, General Manager for the Asia Pacific Region, CIPS
15:00 | Afternoon tea
HELPING YOUR ORGANISATION DRIVE COLLABORATIVE PROCUREMENT
15:30 | Maximising procurement value and efficiency through collaborative procurement
- Elaborating on how Auckland city council have developed and are operating a co-source model with transport and water care
- Working collaboratively with other teams; the challenges and necessary processes
Jazz Singh, General Manager Procurement, Auckland Council
Sara Hay, Head of Financial Transactions, Auckland Council
16:00 | Understanding the strategic benefits of procurement in a shared service environment
- The challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt when implementing procurement in share services
- The pitfalls often seen in contract management and how to overcome them
- Key tips and hints from real life examples
Tod Cooper, General Manager, MDA Corporation and NZ CIPS Committee Chair
PANEL DISCUSSION:
16:30 | The power of collaborative procurement – should we be doing it more?
- Why is collaborative procurement so rare?
- The benefits are obvious yet why aren’t more organisations collaborating doing it?
- What are the challenges preventing collaborative procurement and how to overcome them?
Panel Moderator:
Jennie Vickers, Executive Director, New Zealand Defence Industry Association Inc
Panellists:
Paula Alkema, Director of Commercial Services, New Zealand Transport Agency
Sara Hay, Head of Financial Transactions, Auckland Council
Barbara Allen, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University Wellington
Honey Meares, Enterprise Alignment
INTERNATIONAL ONLINE PRESENTATION:
17:00 | The story of public procurement reform in Scotland – and what New Zealand can learn from it
- How the key ingredients of procurement reform can be translated into an international context -
- How to deliver greater efficiency in public spend, but also to tackle broader economic challenges - ranging from sustainable development through to tackling corruption and fraud.
- The importance of repositioning procurement away from the traditional perception of a back office support function
- How to enable an area to be recognised as a key strategic enabler of policy development and service delivery
- Reforming public procurement functions to illustrate both the possibilities and the pitfalls of delivering major and sustained change
- What New Zealand can learn from the Scotland’s public sector as well as other governments and administrations such as South East Europe
Alastair Merrill, Vice Principal (Governance and Planning), University of St Andrews, Scotland
17:25 | Closing remarks from the Chair
17:35 | End of Day One and networking drinks
18:45 | Official event dinner