CPO Rising is a media site written for and about Chief Procurement Officers and other supply management executives. It is also the largest website focused on procurement and supply management. Our mission is to engage executive leaders with a steady stream of top-quality, progressive, and original content. CPO Rising is published by noted analyst, Andrew Bartolini, the Chief Research Officer at Ardent Partners.

CPO Rising seeks to deliver:

• * Compelling articles that provide insight and progressive approaches to the procurement agenda.
• * Information that educates, challenges, entertains and engages the reader.
• * Real world case studies based on more than a decade of work and research with leading practitioners in supply management.
• * The opportunity to regularly engage with procurement executives from leading companies.

A few items to note:

• Site Design and Navigation: A primer on the design of CPO Rising with key navigation tips can be found by clicking here.
  

• Ground Rules: This is an open forum that seeks your comments, ideas, and opinions – any criticism should be constructive and focused on the ideas presented here, not on the people who present them. If you must criticize someone, please restrict your comments to the publisher. Finally, comments that are deemed as “too commercial” by the publisher will be edited or deleted (sorry!).

• Disclaimer: CPO Rising is owned and published by Ardent Partners, a research and advisory firm founded by Andrew Bartolini. The ideas and content in the published articles represent Ardent’s and Andrew’s views on a given topic at the time.

• Citation Policy:
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  • (2) Any commercial use of this site’s content must have prior written approval from Andrew Bartolini.

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