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CPO: All Master Craftsmen Need Their Tools
There is no profession where a true master tradesman intentionally lays aside the core tools and equipment of their craft – skill, creativity, and dedication cannot replace them. Major technological... Read more
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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 528: A Conversation with Doug Leeby, CEO of Beeline
This week’s all-new Contingent Workforce Weekly episode features a conversation with Doug Leeby, CEO of Beeline. Doug and I chat about the solution’s recent news about its extended workforce platform,... Read more
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The Link Between Mental Health and the Future of Work
Even though it seems as if time passed by both slowly and quickly during the past, very strange 12 months, it’s not that difficult to remember the days immediately preceding... Read more
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Procurement 2021 Big Trends: Technology is the Linchpin to Procurement Operations
While the procurement industry is consistently evolving and shifting, 2021 begins after a truly unprecedented year. In 2020, Chief Procurement Officers and their teams were forced to face massive disruptions,... Read more
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2021: It’s Time for Procurement to Engage
“The whole notion of collaboration, both internally and externally, I think, is something that, in procurement, we have to be really religious about. We have to be really militant about... Read more
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Throwback Thursday: Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Project Management Skills
[Editor’s Note: We continue our “Throwback Thursday” series with another look at a past entry on the skills needed for today’s procurement leaders.] It’s a great and worthwhile pursuit for Chief... Read more
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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 527: A Conversation with Maria Luoni, President of RightSourcing
This week’s all-new Contingent Workforce Weekly episode, sponsored by Beeline, features a conversation with Maria Luoni, President of RightSourcing. Maria and I chat about the evolving world of work, the... Read more
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Metrics that Matter 2021: The Rise of the ‘Gig’ Worker and What it Means to Accounts Payable
[EDITOR’S NOTE: For the past three years, Ardent Partners’ Accounts Payable Metrics that Matter has compiled the industry’s best and most widely-used AP/finance industry benchmarks and delivered them in a highly-accessible... Read more
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Procurement 2021 Big Prediction – Big Data & AI Make Major Impacts
While the procurement industry is consistently evolving and shifting, 2021 begins after a truly unprecedented year. In 2020, Chief Procurement Officers and their teams were forced to face massive disruptions,... Read more
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On Being BOLD in 2021
Recent studies of human behavior and thinking invariably show that there are a large number of natural influences or biases that can affect individual and organizational decision-making. It is a... Read more