YouTube Hall of Fame – Procurement: Arizona State
What do you do for a living? How many times have those of us working in Procurement/Supply Management struggled to answer the simple question “what do you do for a…
YouTube Hall of Fame – Procurement: Merck
With a hat tip to Grantland, a new ESPN site, founded this year by a fellow HC alum, we've decided to offer up our own "YouTube Hall of Fame." We…
A CPO with a Great Foundation
Publisher's Note: This report is now available in the Ardent Partners library at a substantial discount. Click here to learn more. Kevin Clearie’s path to becoming a Chief Procurement Officer started…
Chief Procurement Officer: The Position
Publisher's Note: This report is now available in the Ardent Partners library at a substantial discount. Click here to learn more. The following is an excerpt from one of our recent…
Becoming a Chief Procurement Officer
Publisher's Note: This report is now available in the Ardent Partners library at a substantial discount. Click here to learn more. When you were a kid, what did you want to…
Keeping Time
While our last article, Making Music, was based on a real-world scenario (huge disconnect between two groups in large company) that I recently experienced while working with one client, the…
Making Music
I was recently involved in a very interesting situation where one group ("Group 1") within a large global company pursued an opportunity that it felt it was equipped to support.…
“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring “Corporate” Site Sponsors
Our final Cyber Week "promotion" is today. We want to thank our readers and our Chief Procurement Officer "friends of the site" for making CPO Rising one of the most-visited…
“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring “Sourcing in the 2010s” Report
For “Cyber Week,” we are running a few "promotions"- including our sponsors and our own time-sensitive, cyber-promotions of the research over on Ardent Partners (they will be time-sensitive, so make…
“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring Lead Sponsor BravoSolution
For “Cyber Week,” we are running a few "promotions"- for our sponsors and for our own time-sensitive, cyber-promotions of the research over on Ardent Partners (they will be time-sensitive, so…