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May 13, 2013

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 Procurement (“CPO”) at Rio Tinto... Read more
May 10, 2013

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 2,000 customers, staffers, partners, sponsors,... Read more
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 procurement, Andrew Tyler, as Chief... Read more
April 11, 2013

Coupa Inspire ’13: The Real Thing

Earlier this week, I attended Coupa’s inaugural user conference, Inspire,in San Francisco. It was a winning and impressive display that blended executive and product presentations with client success stories on... 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 13, 2013

Intesource Innovation ’13: Raley’s (Procurement) Comet

I just spent the last two days in Phoenix for Intesource’s annual user conference, Innovation ’13. Intesource is a provider of cloud-based sourcing solutions and sourcing services that has a... 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
March 1, 2013

CPO News – March 1, 2013

All the CPO News That’s Fit to Print New South African Chief Procurement Officer to Lead Transformation and Fight Huge Corruption Earlier this week, South African Minister of Finance, Pravin... 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
February 12, 2013

From CPO to EVP & Global Head of Business Services

In January, 2010, I made a series of predictions for the decade ahead in the second article ever published on this site. The first prediction was: Many of today’s leading... Read more