December 24, 2014
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…
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December 23, 2014
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…
December 22, 2014
[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…
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,…
December 18, 2014
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…
December 17, 2014
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…
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…
December 15, 2014
The world of complex spend management can often frustrate the typical procurement executive, as each category that encompasses this area has its own distinct set of capabilities, competencies, solutions, and…
December 12, 2014
In the mid-to-late 1980s, U.S. President Ronald Reagan adopted an old Russian proverb, “doveryai no proveryai” (trust, but verify) to emphasize to Soviet Premiere Mikhail Gorbachev the need to ensure…
