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Best of 2014: Your Guidebook to CWM, Part I: Engagement Evolution
Editor’s Note: This week on CPO Rising, we’re publishing five “best of” articles from 2014 as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. Enjoy! Welcome... Read more
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Best of 2014: P2P Metrics that Matter
Editor’s Note: This week on CPO Rising, we’re publishing five “best of” articles from 2014 as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. Enjoy! The... Read more
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Best of 2014: CPOs in 2014: Doing Better with Same
Editor’s Note: This week on CPO Rising, we’re publishing five “best of” articles from 2014 as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. Enjoy! Ardent... Read more
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Seasons Greetings!
Another year will soon be in the books and 2015 is going start with a bang! (more on that in January)! Until then, we want to extend a warm holiday... Read more
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Supplier Performance Management: The Fourth Strategic Sourcing Pillar
Over the past month, Ardent Partners has featured analysis from The State of Strategic Sourcing 2014: Connecting the Dots, which is now out and available. Interested readers can find the report here and here. This research... Read more
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Using Spend Under Management Principles to Drive Improved Financial Performance
[A note from the editor: In August, Andrew posed the question – How Do You Define Spend Under Management? – to our audience and invited them to share their views because we... Read more
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CPO News – December 19, 2014
Former Apple Global Supply Manager to Serve Jail Time for Procurement Fraud It has been a long time coming, but we can finally close the book on Paul Shin Devine,... Read more
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CPO Serial: Procurement Outsourcing (Episode 2) – A Business Case is Made
Procurement outsourcing has arrived. It may not be beloved by Chief Procurement Officers, but it is certainly on many of their radar screens. It is a topic that many of... Read more
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Contract Management: The Third Strategic Sourcing Pillar
Over the past couple of weeks, Ardent Partners has been featuring analysis from The State of Strategic Sourcing 2014: Connecting the Dots, which is now out and available. Interested readers can find... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – December 16, 2014
SAP Completes Concur Acquisition for $8.3 Billion On December 4, global software provider SAP AG (NYSE Ticker – SAP) announced that it had completed its $8.3 billion acquisition (or $129 per... Read more