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Case Study – Procurement Transformation in the Mid-market (Healthcare)
Since launching Ardent Partners this summer, I have been spending a good deal of time introducing the firm to the different solution providers in the supply management space. One of... Read more
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Supply Risk and its Potential to Negatively Impact Revenue
If you are looking for another example of the importance of procurement and its impact on revenue and profits, just pick up today’s business section of your newspaper do a... Read more
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Next Stop, Green
The start of this week brought me to Ottawa to present at the Canadian Public Procurement Council’s (“CPPC”) 12th annual Procurement Forum. For those of you that are not familiar... Read more
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Lillevik in the Field: Webster Bank’s First CPO
I recently caught up with CPO on the rise and “friend of the site,” Anders Lillevik to check on how his procurement transformation project, which began when he joined Webster... Read more
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Fraud Prevention (2) – CPO Strategies
Today, we follow up on our last article, which discussed procurement fraud and Apple’s bad apple, Paul Shin Devine, who has been accused of taking more than $1 million in... Read more
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Acquisti & Sostenibilità – Sustainable Procurement, Italian Style
In our two most recent articles, we have introduced Luca Guzzabocca, one of the leading statesmen for Italian procurement and the Director of Procurement, Logistics, HSE, Security Management (or “Chief... Read more
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Luca Guzzabocca – Banking on Procurement (Part 2)
In our last article, we introduced you to “friend of the site,” Luca Guzzabocca, the Director of Procurement, Logistics, HSE, Security Management (or “Chief Procurement Officer”) at Banca Monte Dei... Read more
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Luca Guzzabocca: Banking on Procurement (Part 1)
There are certain people who come to epitomize their community while also being active participants in it. Sometimes they become statesmen, like Warren Buffet, who’s played that role for the... Read more
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Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis (Part 2B)
We’ll hop right into today’s article which follows this article (link) chronologically as part of an extended series where we have gotten to know Mario Mosca (amico del sito) and... Read more
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Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis (Part 2A)
We continue today with Part 2A of our case study of how Enel, Europe’s second largest utility company with annual revenue exceeding 64 billion €, made its case for an... Read more