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Chief Procurement Officers in 2014: Doing Better with Same
Ardent Partners recently published our annual CPO Rising report (entitled CPO Rising 2014: Convergence) and the focus of this report is exactly geared towards the readers of CPO Rising (CPOs and those who... Read more
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Procurement’s CWM Responsibilities
Welcome to the first article in a series that will examine which internal unit owns responsibility for the vast array of intricate attributes of contemporary contingent workforce management. Today’s article... Read more
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Procurement’s Evolution (Part IV): Convergence with Contingent Workforce Management
Ardent’s State of Contingent Workforce Management report (available for complimentary download here, here, or here) features a variety of groundbreaking concepts and ideas, one being the industry’s very-first official Contingent... Read more
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Instant Analysis: SAP Announces Plans to Acquire Fieldglass
Earlier today, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced its intent to acquire Vendor Management System (VMS) provider Fieldglass, one of the world’s leading platforms for managing contingent labor and other types... Read more
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What Every Executive Should Know About Business Networks
This is your final chance to participate in our annual AP market research study – click here to take the survey. All participants get a free copy of the final... Read more
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“We have no specific procurement goals.”
In the early days of the firm, I did a regional tour to visit different procurement organizations to get their feedback on my plans for CPO Rising and Ardent Partners.... Read more
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Procurement’s Evolution, Part III: Convergence With Marketing
Today, we continue our series that highlights procurement’s (and the chief procurement officer’s) evolving influence within the greater enterprise. Each of these articles will tackle a business function or enterprise... Read more
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Cross Pollination
First, I’d like to invite you to join me on March 20th at 2 PM ET for a webinar where I present the findings from my annual CPO Rising report... Read more
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Procurement’s Evolution, Part II: Convergence with Travel
Today, we continue our series that highlights procurement’s (and the chief procurement officer’s) evolving influence within the greater enterprise. Each of these articles will tackle a business function or enterprise... Read more
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Corporate Convergence: Finance and Procurement
Convergence has been a big theme this past decade. Frankly, it seems like everything is converging with something else. Your local pharmacy is now your walk-in clinic. Your low-cost retailer... Read more