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The Next Evolution of the Agile Workforce
The concept of business agility is not a new ideal, but in fact an evolving set of attributes that describe a company’s overall dynamic responses to real-world pressures and barriers... Read more
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Ardent’s “2K20 Series” – Top Strategies for Leading a Resilient Procurement Organization Session
Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management professionals and collectively tackle... Read more
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Four Factors Influencing The Adoption of ePayables Technology
There are many different theories and models that attempt to explain the complex riddle of how and why users adopt technology. One of the best known is the Unified Theory... Read more
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The Future of Total Talent Management
Back in 2016, I wrote and developed a research study called The Modern Guide to Total Talent Management, which included this passage: The very simple argument for building or developing... Read more
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Ardent’s “2K20 Series” – CPO Strategies: Paving the Road to Recovery Session
Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management professionals and... Read more
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Sourcing Smarter to Accelerate Procurement’s Impact (New Webinar)
[Editor’s Note: Join Ardent Partners on October 1st at 2 PM ET for the Sourcing Smarter: Accelerating Procurement’s Impact webinar, sponsored by Scout RFP.] In the last six months, procurement... Read more
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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 512: A Conversation with Michael Wachholz, CEO of Geometric Results, Inc. (GRI)
This week, we chat with Michael Wachholz, CEO of GRI. Michael and I chat about why direct sourcing has become such a hot topic (and how it drives value), the... Read more
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Becoming Data-Driven in Accounts Payable
Due to the rise of business process automation tools, cloud-based applications, mobile solutions, and connected devices permeating the modern business environment, more data is being created each year than ever... Read more
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The Impact of Direct Sourcing on the Future of Work
Direct sourcing, also known as “self-sourcing,” has emerged over the past several years as a powerful instrument in the talent acquisition toolbox. Direct sourcing entails a business, in essence, acting... Read more
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Procurement Metrics that Matter in 2020 (New Webinar)
Join Ardent Partners on September 17th at 2 PM ET for our Procurement Management Metrics that Matter webinar, sponsored by Corcentric. The disruptive days of 2020 have placed Chief Procurement Officers... Read more