The Leading Edge
The Leading Edge is a new thought leadership series, offering in-depth insights into the key challenges, innovations, and evolving dynamics of the contract and commerce landscape.
We’re bringing these insights to our community in a new way – through a curated series of articles and accompanying podcasts featuring expert voices and industry leaders.
The Leading Edge
Latest Episodes
The Role of Lawyers in a Changing World
In this episode, we explore how the role of lawyers is evolving in response to shifting market dynamics, technological disruption, and new contracting models. We examine how legal professionals are moving beyond traditional risk management towa...
Decades of Lost Potential in Defense Research and Development
In this episode, we unpack a deep and systemic challenge at the heart of U.S. defense innovation: how a flagship program intended to catalyse breakthrough technologies has, over decades, evolved into an engine of bureaucratic inertia and entren...
China's CCM capability gap: a strategic inflection point for global commerce
In this episode, we explore whether China’s transition from manufacturing to services is truly constrained by a lack of Contract and Commercial Management (CCM) capability – or whether the reality is more nuanced.We examine how different...
¿La IA es la oportunidad que Procurement (Compras / Abastecimiento) estaba esperando para reinventarse?
Enfoque: En este episodio exploramos cómo la IA está transformando el panorama de Procurement, no al mejorar el modelo tradicional, sino al cuestionar su propia existencia. A medida que los sistemas inteligentes automatizan tareas tradic...
To become ‘commercial’, public procurement must confront its contradictions
In this episode, we explore the uncomfortable truth behind the push for “more commercial” public procurement.Governments want faster delivery, better value, and more innovative partnerships with suppliers. As markets become m...
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