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Managing R&D Spend: A Briefing with Science Exchange
Ardent Partners’ analysts recently took a briefing with executives from Science Exchange, a leading R&D Services Management company. Through its marketplace, Science Exchange brings together research scientists in several industries... Read more
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Throwback Thursday: Non-Price Attributes – “Who” is the Supplier?
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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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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Toward an Intelligent Supply Risk Management Paradigm
Last week, I effectively made a business case for adopting digital, automated supply risk management (SRM) tools, along with supplier information management (SIM) and supplier performance management (SPM) tools in... Read more
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The Business Case for Supply Risk Management in 2019: By the Numbers
There’s a business case to be made for adopting and implementing supply risk management (SRM) tools, as well as supplier performance management (SPM) and supplier information management (SIM) tools. Part... Read more
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Five Best Practices in Supplier Information Management
In the current “Age of Innovation,” businesses are more reliant upon their suppliers than ever before. But, the ability of sourcing and procurement teams to fully optimize their suppliers’ performance... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – June 21, 2018
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement,... Read more
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The Consumerization of Procurement Technologies: A Hot Take on Some Hot Tech
In 2018, knowledge workers have arrived at an exciting juncture: a place where business and consumer technologies intersect with current procurement business technologies and emerging innovations. And it’s creating a... Read more
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Seven Keys to Better Sourcing and Supplier Management, Part Six: A Warm Welcome
As Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) know all too well, how and what you communicate during the sourcing process sets the stage for the resulting supplier relationship. And while that relationship may never... Read more
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Seven Keys to Better Sourcing and Supplier Management, Part Five: Efficient (and Robust) Evaluations
As Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) know all too well, how and what you communicate during the sourcing process sets the stage for the resulting supplier relationship. And while that relationship may never... Read more