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Events

June 28, 2010

BIG Trends

In business circles, supply management is the new black. Next week, I will be discussing some of the BIG Trends that I see shaping spend (or supply) management in the... Read more
June 4, 2010

CPO Shop Talk from Ariba LIVE: (1) Clouds (2) P2P Enablement (3) WCO

The eSourcing 2.0 campaign is underway and over the next few months we’ll be taking the campaign to the streets. I’ve already been invited by several procurement leaders to speak... Read more
May 24, 2010

Opportunity-to-Order: The Value of Contract Management

Buy-Sell, Sell-Buy. Tomorrow, and for perhaps the last time ever (not definitive), I will be presenting research that I performed for my last employer, Aberdeen Group. In a strange twist... Read more
May 12, 2010

Executive Engagement: The CEO

If procurement warrants a C-level role within the enterprise (and by the title of this site you know that we think it does), the Chief Procurement Officer should begin to... Read more
April 28, 2010

Are You Experienced?

Have you ever been experienced? Well, I have…. Actually I haven’t. Wait, now I’m not sure, what are we talking about again? Like most other days at CPO Rising, today... Read more
April 26, 2010

Meet me in…. Chicago… and San Francisco…

May is shaping up to be a busy month. To start, it is ‘events season’ for many of the solution providers in the supply management space and I will be... Read more
April 16, 2010

Spend Analysis, Italian Style

We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming…. Two of my favorite things: (1) waking up in Italy and (2) talking about spend analysis. Despite my 90-year old Nonna’s... Read more
April 7, 2010

Harvesting Supplier Innovation (Part 1)

On Monday, I made the case that “targeted bets on some smaller suppliers can help enterprises find that next big (or key incremental) innovation.” Today we’ll look at how procurement... Read more
April 1, 2010

Opening Day – Welcome to CPO Rising!

Welcome to CPO Rising, the first independent site that seeks to chronicle the continuing rise of Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other supply management leaders within the enterprise business ranks.... Read more
March 22, 2010

ePayables: The Digital Difference Webinar

A deficient accounts payable function creates problems for procurement and the CPO. AP departments that lack technology, centralization of oversight, and visibility negatively impact procurement processes and performance. A discussion... Read more