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Research Preview: The State of Strategic Sourcing – Best-in-Class Performance
Ardent Partners is pleased to announce the publication of The State of Strategic Sourcing 2015: The Four Pillars of Sourcing Success report. Interested readers can download this exciting and informative annual research... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – February 4, 2016
Coupa Announces Contractually Acquisition Last week, Coupa, the California-based provider of spend management solutions for the cloud, provided Ardent Partners with a briefing on its recent acquisition of Contractually, the Vancouver, Canada-based... Read more
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From CFO to CEO: A Conversation with Louie Psallidas of Uno’s (I) – (CPOR-16 Speaker Spotlight)
Over the next few weeks we will highlight some of the outstanding executives that are presenting at the CPO Rising 2016 Summit. It is fitting that we commence this series... Read more
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The Network Effect: How B2B Networks Can Impact Accounts Payable (Webinar)
The speed of business continues to accelerate while markets expand, shift, merge, and emerge at a pace never seen before. The result is a fast-moving and highly-competitive global marketplace that... Read more
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Onward and Upward: IBM Procurement Leverages an Ecosystem to Drive Value
IBM completed its acquisition of Emptoris in February 2012, ostensibly to bolster its Smarter Commerce solution suite. There have been significant changes for Emptoris in the intervening years, and 2015... Read more
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The State of the Chief Procurement Officer in 2016 (Hypothesis)
Editor’s Note: Our annual CPO Rising survey is now open — The data we collect from the survey will fuel our “CPO Rising 2016” research report that will publish in March... Read more
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Herding Cats is not a Strategy: Move Beyond Tactics to Align for Procurement Success (Webinar)
When your workday is consumed by the tactics of managing procurement, it’s nearly impossible to look ahead and plan an organizational strategy for success. Join our expert panel as they... Read more
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How to Transform Procurement in Five Steps – Step Five: External Stakeholder Engagement
Editor’s Note: Procurement transformation will be a big topic at Ardent Partners’ CPO Rising 2016 executive symposium this spring. Join us in Boston on March 29-30 for what is shaping up to... Read more