Founding Managing Director, AcademyGlobal (AG) and Adjunct Faculty at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), at the University of New South Wales.
Founder and Managing Director, Exectuvive Chair, AcademyGlobal (AG), the CIPS centre of Excellence for ANZ
Adjunct Faculty at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), the University of New South Wales
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Key takeaways
Procurement and project roles are bundles of different tasks, and AI is pulling that bundle apart rather than replacing the whole job.
Transactional, rule bound work is being automated fast, from invoice matching and contract review to status reporting and scheduling.
Judgement, negotiation, stakeholder management and accountability sit above the analysis and are not being automated.
The durable career moves up the value chain: directing the tools, interrogating their output, and owning the decisions they inform.
Few questions unsettles a procurement or project professional more than the obvious one: what happens to my job when the software can do the analysis. It is a fair question, and it deserves a better answer than the two that dominate the conversation. One camp insists nothing much will change, that these tools are overhyped and the work is too complex to…
Founding Managing Director, AcademyGlobal (AG) and Adjunct Faculty at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), at the University of New South Wales.
