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What’s the Best Way to Maximize Your Business Travel Budget? Part I
Editor’s Note: Today’s article was developed from an interview with resident Ardent Partners business travel / expense management, Christopher J. Dwyer, with the team at MarketWatch. To gain more insight... Read more
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Is the “Flex Economy” for Real?
The contemporary enterprise finds itself relying more and more on temporary workers to achieve critical corporate objectives, more so than any other era in recent history. In fact, Ardent Partners,... Read more
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CPO Rising 2015: The Agility Agenda – “Nine out of 10 CPOs Agree…”
Ardent Partners recently published my annual CPO-themed report – CPO Rising 2015: The Agility Agenda (click to download, registration required) – that is drawn from the responses of more than 300... Read more
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Key Strategies for AP Automation Initiatives (Webinar)
Accounts payable (AP) has for a number of years been one of the last bastions of manual processes in the enterprise. Many AP teams still process paper-based invoices through a... Read more
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What Does “Big Data” Mean for the CFO?
The realm of “visibility” is a complicated one for many enterprises as they attempt to drive a full picture of various aspects of their respective organizations. The pressure of business... Read more
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CPO Rising 2015: The Agility Agenda (Report) is Now Available
I am very pleased to announce that my annual CPO Rising report is now available for download by clicking here (registration required). I began publishing an annual CPO-focused report in 2006... Read more
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CPO Serial: Four Lessons Learned, Our CPO Reflects Part II
Over the past four months, Ardent Partners has presented one Chief Procurement Officer’s insightful and fascinating foray into a procurement outsourcing project that has gone terribly wrong. [Readers can review... Read more
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Ariba LIVE 2015: AIG’s Technology Journey
Last week our team attended Ariba LIVE, which is arguably, along with the ISM conference in May, one of the two largest and most significant events in our industry. Over... Read more
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Webinar Preview: Trendspotting: AP’s Top Trends for 2015
Today’s article is a brief preview of Ardent’s upcoming “Trendspotting: AP’s Top Trends for 2015” webinar this coming Thursday at 2pm Eastern. The event, sponsored by Concur, will highlight the... Read more
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Why Should the CFO Care About Contingent Workforce Management?
The modern-day Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has its hands in a mix of contemporary processes, capabilities, and initiatives. For years, the analyst team at Ardent Partners has spoken of (and... Read more