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Zycus’s Analyst Day: A “Magical” Time in Park City
Park City, Utah is home to majestic mountain views, great skiing, breath-taking hiking (literally), and bountiful wild game. It hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics, and very recently, it hosted Zycus‘s Analyst... Read more
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Technology Round-Up — July 3, 2019 (Coupa Inspire Edition)
Coupa Inspire was held last week, June 24-27 in Las Vegas at the chic Cosmopolitan Hotel and Conference Center. Ardent Partners’ analyst team was in attendance. During the conference, Coupa Software, the San... Read more
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The Agile Workforce: The Answer to Market Transformation
Businesses sit in an interesting position in 2019 (and on the cusp of the end of another decade): as competition and innovation continue to accelerate at breakneck speed, the very... Read more
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The Rise of Analytics for Procurement: Strategies for Success
Editor’s Note: Today’s article picks up where a previous article, Beyond Savings and Risk: Next-Gen Procurement Analytics are Coming into their Own, left off. There is an enormous amount of value... Read more
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How eSourcing Helps You Manage Supply Chain Risks (Guest Post)
[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest publication from Prokuria. Ardent Partners is happy to review and feature guest publications from authors across the procurement and supply management industry. If... Read more
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Five Ways to Build a Best-in-Class Contingent Workforce Program
The ultimate goal of work optimization is the culmination of next-generation strategies, solutions, and innovations that converge together to reimagine how a business engages and acquires its talent and addresses... Read more
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Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Supply Risk Management
It’s a great and worthwhile pursuit for Chief Procurement Officers to invest in their people, so, in that vein, over the next few weeks we will be analyzing the key skills and capabilities... Read more
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Help! My Organization is Too Small to Negotiate with Big Suppliers (Guest Post)
[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest publication from UNA. Ardent Partners is happy to review and feature guest publications from authors across the procurement and supply management industry. If... Read more
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CPO Rising 2019: Becoming More Agile, Data-Driven, and Intelligent
Editor’s Note: Today’s article includes a large excerpt from Ardent’s annual “State of Procurement” research report, CPO Rising 2019: Value Expansion. This report is based upon the responses from more than 300... Read more
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Digital Staffing’s Place in the Future of Work
Talent acquisition has long been a critical process in the business arena. With talent as a top competitive differentiator, weak staffing initiatives can undermine the greater organization’s ability to achieve... Read more