Looking back at the New Year’s event @ Benefit

“This year’s YPP New Year’s event was organised at Benefit. With a great turn-out of over 30 enthusiast young professionals the topic change management in procurement was on the agenda.

Procurement and change are linked together irrespectively of the organization you work for. Determining the impact and complexity of a change, top management support and ensuring that all stakeholders are on board are challenges everybody in the field of procurement faces. Looking at these challenges from a change management perspective resulted in an interesting evening.

After a brief introduction into several change management models and some practical insights a change management case was presented. In small groups the challenge of converting a fleet of fossil fuel lease cars into a fleet that exists of solely electric cars was tackled from a change management perspective. Sustainability was the driver behind the transition and this led to interesting discussions in the different groups. After a final wrap-up where insights and solutions were shared between the groups it was time to close the official part of the event and celebrate the start of the new YPP year with drinks.”