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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
| 8:00 to 9:00 am |
Featured Session You Don’t Need a Title to be a Leader Mark Sanborn, Leadership Speaker |
| 9:00 to 10:00 am |
Featured Session From Highly Fragmented to High Performing: Microsoft’s Procurement Transformation Tim McBride, GM, Chief Procurement Officer, Microsoft |
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Featured Speaker
You Don’t Need a Title to be a Leader: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Make a Positive Difference
"How do we get from where we are to where we want to be?”
"How do we get people who aren’t titled leaders to take responsibility, lead when it is appropriate, and improve performance to create amazing results?"
These are important questions in every organization today. Mark Sanborn’s high-impact leadership presentation will answer these questions by inspiring SIG Summit participants with insights on how to go beyond merely pursuing goals to achieving their full potential. Mark will show the audience how having a title doesn’t necessarily make you a leader, and how lacking a title doesn’t keep you from leading.
The only thing more powerful than a good leader is an organization of good leaders. Few people are “natural born leaders”, but leadership can be learned. In this presentation, you’ll learn the six skills that all leaders use for increasing ROI: Relationships, Outcomes and Improvements. This presentation teaches the essence of how to lead, and lead better, by giving skills and strategies to create a team of leaders rather than just leading the team. Mark’s presentation includes a practical blueprint for creating leaders at every level in an organization and teaches attendees how to reach new heights.
You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader will resonate with those who aspire to make a positive difference — regardless of title or position.
Mark Sanborn, Leadership Speaker
President of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., Mark is dedicated to developing leaders in business and in life. Mark is an international bestselling author and noted authority on leadership, team building, customer service, and change.
Mark's list of over 1,500 clients includes Capital One, Costco, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, FedEx, Harley-Davidson, Hewlett Packard, Key Bank, KPMG, Morton's of Chicago, Motorola, New York Life, RE/MAX, ServiceMaster, Time Warner, Upsher-Smith, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, USPS, Wachovia, and Washington Mutual.
Mark Sanborn has authored seven books, including the international bestseller, The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Make the Ordinary Extraordinary. He has created and appeared in 20 videos and numerous audio training programs. His video series Team Building: How to Motivate and Manage People made it to the #2 spot for bestselling educational video series in the U.S.
Featured Speaker
From Highly Fragmented to High Performing: Microsoft’s Procurement Transformation
Until 2007, Microsoft had more than 30,000 buyers across the company with little category focus or ability to deliver savings. While highly efficient, procurement processes were not very effective at managing costs or providing strategic value to the business. By 2010, the Global Procurement Group (GPG) at Microsoft had more than tripled their rate of savings capture while doubling ROI. At the same time the plans for strategic sourcing have been integrated into the annual budgeting process for the company. In his presentation, Tim McBride will discuss the steps he took after becoming CPO to transform indirect procurement at Microsoft and turn it into a world-class organization. He will describe the challenges they faced along the way and the lessons learned. He will also describe the role outsourcing played in the transformation, what it took to develop and transform the skills of the team as well as the perception of value by internal stakeholders. In closing, he will also share his thoughts on the possible future and the potential role that cloud-based computing and “smartsourcing” may have on procurement in the years ahead.
Tim McBride, GM, Chief Procurement Officer, Microsoft
Tim leads Microsoft’s Global Procurement group and is responsible for managing more than $10B in indirect spend for the company. His responsibilities include: strategic sourcing, category management, vendor management and procurement professional training and development for procurement staff in more than 40 countries. His team is also accountable for Microsoft’s procurement governance and process controls as well as Supplier diversity and vendor business development.
Tim is a fifteen-year Microsoft veteran with experience in a variety of areas prior to joining Procurement. He has served as business manager and Managing Editor of TechNet, a publication focused on IT Professional customers and as marketing and partner channel manager. From 2001-2003 he lead the US Channel Partner team responsible for partner relationship, training and sales programs for Microsoft's 13,000 Certified Partners in the U.S.
Tim also serves as Chairmen of the NMSDC’s Business Consortium Fund. He is a former board member of the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) and Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).
Prior to Microsoft Tim spent ten years in various roles at Bell Communications Research of Livingston, NJ and at Washington Mutual Savings Bank in Seattle. A Seattle native, Tim is a graduate of Seattle University.
Featured Speaker
The Transformation of Walgreens Distribution Centers: Employing Individuals with Disabilities for Success
All Walgreens Distribution Centers (DCs) provide employment to hundreds of individuals with disabilities. Randy Lewis, Walgreens Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Logistics, will share with SIG Summit participants an inspirational story of how he created a hard-working and loyal workforce by tapping into a market of employees that most companies overlook.
Lewis was instrumental in introducing a new concept to Walgreens that transformed the company’s distribution centers while creating new employment opportunities. In 2002, he was the driving force behind a business model to make technology, efficiency, and accessibility all top priorities under one roof for the company’s next generation of DCs. Five years later, it became reality when Walgreens opened its Anderson, S.C. site. Another DC built with the same advanced technology and employment goals opened in Windsor, Conn. in 2009.
With an autistic son, Lewis learned first-hand the importance of looking past a disability to really see a person. Lewis took that experience to a new level when he proposed the idea of filling
one-third of the DC workforce with people with disabilities — a philosophy few companies have yet to embrace.
With the help of local vocational rehabilitation agencies, Lewis and Walgreens have formulated a prescription for success. The company holds all team members to the same performance standards. Lewis will share this initiative with procurement and outsourcing executives, in the hopes that they will see hiring people with disabilities is not charitable but makes good business sense.
Randy Lewis, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain and Logistics, Walgreens
Randy Lewis is senior vice president of Supply Chain and Logistics for Walgreens, the nation’s largest drugstore chain. He is responsible for the design and operation of Walgreens supply chain network including operations, engineering, IT systems, and inventory management. In addition to imports, Mr. Lewis overseas Walgreens’ domestic network of fifteen automated distribution centers and one of the U.S.’s largest private fleets to supply its 7,000 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Lewis was instrumental in introducing a new concept to Walgreens that would transform the company’s distribution centers and employment opportunities. Walgreens’ two most recent distribution centers employ an inclusive and integrated workforce composed 40% of persons with disabilities (PWD) who are held to the same work standards and earn the same pay as “typically-abled” fellow workers. As a result of this success of serving both shareholders and the community, Walgreens has set a goal of employing 1,000 people with disabilities (approximately ten percent of the workforce) in its distribution centers by 2010.
Lewis began his career at Accenture and finished his consulting career as a partner with Ernst & Young. Lewis joined Walgreens in 1992 as divisional vice president of logistics and planning. He was promoted to vice president in 1995 and to senior vice president in 1999.
Lewis graduated from the University of Texas, where he earned a B.B.A. in accounting in 1971, a B.A. in economics in 1974 and an M.B.A. in 1975. He served in the Peace Corps in Peru from 1971 to 1973. He worked his way through graduate school as a dance instructor at Arthur Murray.
He has been chairman of the Distribution/Logistics Committee for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, and has served on the board of directors for Tim Hortons International. He is currently on the board of directors of Wendy’s/Arby’s Group.
Featured Session
CXO Report Out – Challenges, Strategies, Insights and Innovation
Facilitated by PwC:
Presenters:
Alsbridge
Archstone
A.T. Kearney
Denali Group
We’re kicking off the week with four concurrent Executive Roundtables—one each for CPOs, CFOs, CIOs and BPO Leads—and we’ll be sharing the results of them towards the end of the Summit. The four groups of executives are spending three hours together on Tuesday, October 5th in four concurrent sessions discussing the challenges they’ve been facing and the strategies they’ve employed to combat them in a difficult economy. At the end of the individual sessions, we’ll bring the four groups together and discuss the issues they have addressed in their functional areas and ways they can bridge the gaps to overcome them together. Following lunch on Thursday, we’ll share the results from those Roundtables. This not-to-be-missed session will cover the key findings in each individual Executive Roundtable, as well as the collective learnings from the Grand Roundtable. Don’t miss this first-of-its-kind General Session!
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