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CPO Rising 2019: Becoming More Agile, Data-Driven, and Intelligent

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team May 31, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Lists, Strategy, Technology

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…

Digital Staffing’s Place in the Future of Work

By Christopher Dwyer May 28, 2019Articles, Complex Categories, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

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…

Throwback Thursday: How eSourcing Can Help Limit Procurement Fraud

By Andrew Bartolini May 16, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and…

Insights from CPO Rising 2019: #ValueExpansion — New Webinar from Ardent Partners!

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team May 6, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Lists, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising 2019: #ValueExpansion is the research project that just keeps on giving.... Join Ardent Partners' Founder and Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, and Xeeva's Director of Product Marketing, Jessica…

Monday First Thing: Art Meets Innovation at IvaluaNOW 2019

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team May 6, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Lists, People, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending IvaluaNOW, Ivalua’s bi-annual user conference in Chicago. It follows closely on the heals of its other user conference, IvaluaNOW in Paris, which it held in…

Monday First Thing: The Metrics that Matter in 2019

By Andrew Bartolini April 22, 2019Articles, General, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

I hope that even casual readers of this site know that my firm, Ardent Partners, has spent that past decade performing extensive market research in the areas of sourcing/procurement, accounts…

Join us for the State of Procurement 2019 Address (Webinar)!

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 19, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Lists, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Ardent's "State of Procurement" webinar (click to register!) is our annual look into the procurement function, analyzing the current capabilities in the areas of people, process, and technology. We also take…

CPO Rising 2019: #ValueExpansion — A New Webinar from Ardent Partners

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 12, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Lists, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Join the Ardent Partners analyst team and special guests on Thursday, April 25 at 2:00 pm EST for the must-attend procurement event of the spring -- CPO Rising 2019: #ValueExpansion! Click…

Four Reasons to be Bullish on the Economy in 2019

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 5, 2019Articles, General, Lists, People

Last month, I recalled a recent meeting with a real estate agent in which he challenged the popular (although paradoxically, also unpopular) opinion that the U.S. and or global economy…

How Far Can We Apply Industry 4.0 to Procurement?

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 27, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, Strategy, Technology

Industry 4.0, as it has been called, is the next phase of manufacturing. By its namesake, it is the fourth industrial revolution representing not just the digitization and automation of…