In association with the Financial Times, our CPO Spark Think Tank brings together a hand-picked group of progressive CPOs from market-leading companies around the world who want to drive positive change and top-line growth in their businesses. Over the course of four in-depth virtual sessions, the group is focusing on the strategies, new technologies, and bold ideas helping CPOs innovate and add value to the wider business while responding to the pressure to reduce costs and mitigate risk in a time of unprecedented change. The second session focused on actions that CPOs can take to transform the procurement function today by turning spend into an asset. This accelerates growth and creates enterprise value in different ways, including driving an organization’s ESG agenda, creating new sources of innovation for the business, redeploying teams from repetitive tasks to value-creating roles, and delivering a superior user experience.