FIVE MINUTES WITH ...
DR ELOUISE EPSTEIN
DR ELOUISE EPSTEIN IS A LONG- STANDING PARTNER AT KEARNEY , A PUBLIC SPEAKER AND AN AUTHOR OF NOTE ON PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN
Dr Elouise Eptein is a Partner at Kearney , a futurist , and a supply chain and procurement author . Her latest book , about digital procurement , is called ‘ Trade wars , Pandemics , and Chaos ’.
Q . TELL US ABOUT YOUR CURRENT ROLE AT KEARNEY
» I am a Kearney partner based out of San Francisco . I ’ ve worked for the firm for almost 22 years . I am a trusted advisor for clients , helping them set their digital procurement and supply chain strategies . I work across all industries and geographies , and am continually generating new content based on my work with clients . I will not show up with half-baked content from five years ago , platitudes , or buzzwords .
I am also a frequent public speaker . Because I am a historian by training my presentations often are equal-part history lesson and supply chain insights , all imbued with my dry wit !
Q . WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A ' FUTURIST ' IN PROCUREMENT ?
» As a futurist , typically I work either with extreme leaders or extreme laggards . Extreme leaders like to embrace a challenge , while extreme laggards look at the extreme leaders and decide they want to scrap everything and leapfrog to the future .
22 April 2022