“ I think it ’ s a tremendously exciting time , a lot of risk to manage , but a lot of new things coming as well ”
NINIAN WILSON CEO , VODAFONE PROCUREMENT
All of this brings us nicely to Wilson ’ s ambition to make Vodafone the best procurement function in the world and create sustainable competitive advantage for the company .
Our aim is to be the best procurement function in the World and create sustainable competitive advantage for Vodafone . But the billion-euro question is , how do you achieve that ? And what does it actually look like ?
Wilson is modest in his assessment of current performance when it comes to where they ultimately want to be in terms of innovation . He says on a good day , his team are scoring 6.5 out of 10 . On a bad day , that might be a straight 6 .