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Throwback Thursday: Five Considerations When Selecting a Business Network
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and... Read more
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Monday First Thing: House of Procurement (Part 2) – Boldness
Publisher’s Note: Today’s article includes a large excerpt Ardent’s annual “State of Procurement” research report, CPO Rising 2019: Value Expansion. This report is based upon the responses from more than 300 CPOs... Read more
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Monday First Thing: House of Procurement (Part 1) – Innovation
Publisher’s Note: Today’s article includes a large excerpt Ardent’s annual “State of Procurement” research report, CPO Rising 2019: Value Expansion. This report is based upon the responses from more than 300 CPOs... Read more
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Monday First Thing: Managing Strategic Suppliers
I attended SAP Ariba LIVE last week and an interesting issue arose related to supplier relationship management as well as a business stakeholder’s ability to identify and properly partner with... Read more
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Top Trends and Value Drivers for AP and Procurement: Automate and Collaborate
The way enterprises do business has changed significantly over the past 15 years, and these shifts – in communication technologies, in business-to-business (B2B) commerce, and in financial tools, among others... Read more
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Best of 2018: The Consumerization of Procurement Technologies: A Hot Take on Some Hot Tech
Editor’s Note: We’re coming to the end of this winter’s “best of” 2018 article series here on CPO Rising, a reflection of the year that was as we prepare for... Read more
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Payables Place First Thing: What Are You Thankful For?
Every now and then we all need to take a step back and thank those around us for helping us on both a personal and professional level. Accounts Payable (“AP”)... Read more
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The Metrics that Matter: Strategies to Empower a More Intelligent Procurement Department
[Editor’s Note: In Ardent’s “Supply Management Metrics that Matter in 2018” (click here to download your copy), we discuss the supply management industry’s best and most widely used metrics that... Read more
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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 311: A Conversation with Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer of Ardent Partners
Welcome to another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week, we (finally) sit down for a discussion with Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, to chat about the procurement... Read more
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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 311: A Conversation with Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer of Ardent Partners
Welcome to another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week, we (finally) sit down for a discussion with Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, to chat about... Read more