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May 17, 2013

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 to procurement and the impact... Read more
April 3, 2013

The Business Network Landscape: Payments (Part 3)

As our discussion of business networks continues today, we should remind our readers that this series is an attempt to introduce new and different categories of networks to the market.... Read more
April 1, 2013

The Business Network Landscape: Industries (Part 2)

Given the overall market interest in B2B/business networks, we decided to publish a series that looks at the different types of networks. We started in Part 1 of this series... Read more
March 25, 2013

The Business Network Landscape: Europe (Part 1)

Vishal Patel is co-author of today’s article Ardent Partners defines a B2B or Business network as a web-based platform that enables interconnected buyers and sellers to trade, communicate, and/or collaborate... Read more
March 20, 2013

Rise of the Machines: The Five Technologies That Will Disrupt Procurement’s World

So, Ardent Partners is putting on a show, a virtual show or webinar that is. In fact, many of you have already noticed our new page and promotion - “Featured... Read more
March 15, 2013

CPO Shop Talk (1) Supply Risk (2) More Supply Risk (3) Featured Webinar

After taking 2012 off, the series “CPO Shop Talk” is back. This is the series where, from time to time, we will attempt to share some of the less-formal conversations... Read more
March 6, 2013

Keeping Score

Even the Chief Procurement Officers who focus almost solely on savings realize that procurement can deliver value across a wide range of areas. To misquote Vince Lombardi, “Savings isn’t everything….... Read more
February 27, 2013

AP’s New Dawn

If you have a few minutes over the next week, we invite you to participate in Ardent Partners’ annual ePayables market research report which will publish at the end of... Read more
February 25, 2013

Five Considerations When Selecting a Business Network

Supplier networks have existed for many years and over the initial years slowly gained in popularity. Today, however, these networks are a quickly growing trend and an increasingly cost effective... Read more
February 14, 2013

CPO Rising: Keeping Score (Webinar)

Over the past few weeks, I have been sharing key findings from Ardent Partners’ latest research report, CPO Rising: Keeping Score. And, I will continue to share findings going forward.... Read more