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October 28, 2011

CPO Shop Talk (1) An Adoption Roundtrip (2) Webinar Nov 1 (3) Market Alert

(1) An Adoption Roundtrip Over a home-cooked team dinner (asian fusion) at one Chief Procurement Officer’s house this week, I fell into a discussion with a Director of Direct regarding... Read more
October 20, 2011

The Path to P2P Excellence Runs Through Finance and Procurement

In our last article, we discussed the opportunity that exists for many enterprises to improve their P2P operations (P2P is defined more broadly as Procurement and Accounts Payable – not... Read more
October 19, 2011

CPO & CFO: Building a More Perfect Union

We keep finding ourselves drawn to the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) – Chief Procurement Officer (“CPO”) relationship story because it is one of the most difficult and challenging within the... Read more
October 10, 2011

Technology Adoption – An Expert’s View: Iasta (2)

As part of our ongoing Technology Adoption series, we thought it would be helpful to capture and share the perspectives from a few industry leaders who face the challenge of... Read more
October 7, 2011

Technology Adoption – An Expert’s View: Iasta (1)

As part of our ongoing Technology Adoption series, we thought it would be helpful to capture and share the perspectives from a few industry leaders who face the challenge of... Read more
October 5, 2011

Six Major Trends for AP in 2012

While I have personally have spent a good deal of my time over the past six years focusing on the accounts payable market, at Ardent Partners, we have another analyst... Read more
September 19, 2011

State of the Procurement Market Webinar

Editor’s Note: An archive of this webinar is available by clicking here; while the report that fueled my portion of it is available here (registration required at each). Readers have... Read more
September 12, 2011

Technology Adoption – An Expert’s View: Puridiom

As CPO Rising continues to advance and mature through the years, we will strive to introduce new ideas in new ways and formats. Today we start by introducing a new... Read more
August 22, 2011

User Adoption Webinar

Editor’s Note: An archive of this webinar is available by clicking here (registration required) Our recent Adoption Series, seen by clicking here, will continue this week with a look at... Read more
August 4, 2011

Case Study from the Collaborative Sourcing Report

In our last article, we discussed Ardent Partners’ recent report focused on Collaborative Sourcing which we define as the process “which blends traditional sourcing approaches with more robust category strategies,... Read more