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  • CPO Shop Talk: SAPPHIRE 2013 Edition

    CPO Shop Talk: SAPPHIRE 2013 Edition

    Through a scheduling blunder (not my only of the season), I was a virtual attendee of this year’s SAPPHIRE NOW & ASUG 2013 conference held...

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  • How Mid-Market Enterprises Should Evaluate ePayables Solutions

    How Mid-Market Enterprises Should Evaluate ePayables Solutions

    When it comes to selecting the right ePayables solution to automate the accounting function, there are certain factors that are going to be more important...

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  • A Brief History of Contingent Workforce Management

    A Brief History of Contingent Workforce Management

    As an interlude to our ongoing “13 for 2013” series of best practices in contingent workforce management (click for Part One, Part Two, Part Three),...

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  • Future Shock: Disruptive Technologies on Procurement’s Horizon

    Future Shock: Disruptive Technologies on Procurement’s Horizon

    From our cars to our homes to our computers, new and innovative technologies are changing the way we do almost everything. That change is coming...

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  • 13 for 2013: Best Practices in Contingent Workforce Management, Part 3

    13 for 2013: Best Practices in Contingent Workforce Management, Part 3

    For those of you who missed the early installments of our “13 for 2013” series on contingent workforce management, I invite you to check out...

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  • Keynote from Ariba LIVE 2013: Ramsay Chu

    Keynote from Ariba LIVE 2013: Ramsay Chu

    When I last spoke with “friend of the site,” Ramsay Chu in early 2012, he had just been hired as the new Global Head of...

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  • Ariba LIVE 2013: Keynote from Down Under

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    Ariba LIVE 2013: Keynote from Down Under

    Ariba LIVE was held this week in Washington DC and the analyst team from Ardent Partners was there in full force. Yes, just us and...

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  • Engagement Management and the Evolution of Events Management

    Engagement Management and the Evolution of Events Management

    Having just returned from one of our industry’s biggest and most engaging events, Ariba LIVE (more about that from Andrew tomorrow and next week), I...

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  • CPO News – May 6, 2013

    CPO News – May 6, 2013

    CPOs on the Rise From “CPO” to Chief Executive Northrop Grumman has appointed former British Ministry of Defence (“MoD”) executive in charge of operations and...

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  • InSEPArable – Payments across the Eurozone

    InSEPArable – Payments across the Eurozone

    Executives and other leaders in procurement (and accounts payable) increasingly have roles with global responsibilities and implications. For this reason, I have taken a European...

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  • Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (3)

    November 15, 2011

    Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (3)

    Today, our final answer to the question: Do you have any advice for more tenured strategic sourcing teams? What should these teams be doing to prepare for the next 5-10... Read more

  • Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (2)

    November 10, 2011

    Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (2)

    Last week, I participated in a webinar – Strategic Imperatives of Procurement: People, Process & Technology – (you can view it by clicking here – registration required) that was sponsored... Read more

  • Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (1)

    November 8, 2011

    Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (1)

    Last week, I participated in a webinar (which was really more of a Q&A session than a traditional webinar) that was sponsored by Zycus. This event allowed me to tackle... Read more

  • Attention Sourcing Professionals – A Few Recommendations

    November 3, 2011

    Attention Sourcing Professionals – A Few Recommendations

    Tuesday afternoon I participated in a webinar/Q&A session that allowed me to tackle a series of hot topic questions [I'll post the archive when it becomes available]. One question that... Read more

  • SNAFU

    October 31, 2011

    SNAFU

    Supply Disruption (Candy) – Halloween in Massachusetts Today, October 31, 2011 is not Halloween, at least in certain parts of Massachusetts. It has been postponed. A “Nor’easter” has taken down... Read more

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

    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

  • Getting over the Adoption Hump: Spend Analysis

    October 26, 2011

    Getting over the Adoption Hump: Spend Analysis

    Today’s Adoption Series entry follows our last article which looked at the concept of a “learning curve” and argued that until users find the new process to be more efficient... Read more

  • Q&A with Daniel Warn, CPO of BCBSRI (2)

    October 24, 2011

    Q&A with Daniel Warn, CPO of BCBSRI (2)

    Our CPOs on the Rise series continues today with Part Two of a Q&A with another “friend of the site” – Daniel Warn (Part One is found here). Dan is... Read more

  • The Path to P2P Excellence Runs Through Finance and Procurement

    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

  • CPO & CFO: Building a More Perfect Union

    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

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