Lawrence was inducted into the SIG Sourcing Supernova Hall of Fame in 2018 for inspiring, insightful, and innovative work over the course of his career. Currently responsible for Strategic Sourcing Functional Excellence, he institutionalized best practices and created innovations that were instrumental to his organization earning the prestigious Global Excellence in Outsourcing award (see at www.iaop.org/GEOaward) from the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). See University of Tennessee whitepaper (at http: //www.jnyden. com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/GEOAward) for more information about how he did that. A member of the SIG University Advisory Board, IAOP Training & Certification Committee, and IAOP Think Tank, he helped create many of the industry's leading practices and regularly advances thought leadership in strategic sourcing, procurement, supplier innovation, and digital transformation at industry conferences. He is a contributing author to the Outsourcing Professional Body of Knowledge (OPBOK), Strategic Sourcing in the New Economy, and Unpacking Collaborative Bidding, among other works and has co-published whitepapers on defining and managing an optimal sourcing mix, contract renegotiations, and strategic use of benchmarking, primarily with ISG. Over the last two decades he has saved his company more than $2.9B by architecting sourcing strategies, designing full sourcing lifecycle management processes and tools, developing future leaders, conducting procurements, negotiating with suppliers, and benchmarking resultant contracts. He is also the bestselling author of 17 books (see www.amazon.com/-/e/B001JOYS9U for his bibliography). You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https: //www.linkedin.com/in/lawrenceakane/.
