At the recent eWorld event, the keynote speech was delivered by Giles Breault. He was CPO in a number of Pharma firms and ended up at Novartis where his role encompassed both procurement and other “productivity” initiatives. I first met him a few years back at an industry dinner, where he made a brief speech and I ended up furiously scribbling down notes on the menu, as his comments were so perceptive and incisive.
He now leads the Beyond Group with Sammy Rashed – we wrote about what they are doing here. Working mainly with firms in the pharma sector, they have been looking to help those firms address really fundamental issues – most of which are not just “procurement” in nature, but moving on to wider business issues around innovation and efficiency more generally….
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