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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
January 10, 2013

CPO News – January 10, 2013

Recent procurement and Chief Procurement Officer headlines from around the world. New CPO at Chevron Chevron has just announced that Maria Lindenberg was appointed Chief Procurement Officer, effective Jan. 1,... Read more
December 3, 2012

Ardent Partners’ Plans for 2013

Regular readers know that this site is published by Ardent Partners, a leading research and advisory firm focused on supply management. With the New Year just around the corner, we... Read more
November 30, 2012

STEP CHANGE: How Business Networks are Changing the Procurement Paradigm

With all of the recent market activity, it is not surprising that more and more people are talking about and focusing on Business Networks (sometimes referred to as B2B, Supplier,... Read more
November 28, 2012

CPO Rising’s Plans for 2013

Regular readers know that this site is published by Ardent Partners, a leading research and advisory firm focused on supply management. With the new year just around the corner, we... Read more
February 17, 2012

P2P Fun and Games

Ahead of the long weekend, we’ll take a break from the supply risk theme and offer up a bit of P2P fun (and games) in the form of today’s article... Read more
September 30, 2011

CPOs on the Rise in 2011: Calling All Suppliers

So, where were we? Ahh, that’s right – the CPOs on the Rise in 2011 series is back and with a big push coming up we plan to focus on... Read more
April 27, 2011

RESEARCH SURVEY – Innovative Ideas for the Next Decade (Please Read and React)

It’s favor time again and this one is important to me. Ardent Partners is planning a single market research effort focused on CPOs and other procurement executives in 2011. Starting... Read more
April 11, 2011

CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – Kirk Eberhart: Directing Direct (Part 2)

In our last article, Kirk Eberhart, our latest CPO on the Rise in 2011, gave us the view from the top of procurement at TMK IPSCO. Kirk reports to the... Read more
November 5, 2010

The Future of P2P – Networks

For those that have been following this series, you’ll recall that since we had recently completed an ePayables Primer, the focus of our “Future of P2P” series has been primarily... Read more