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Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Data Analysis
This year, for the first time, I was invited to present (twice!) at the annual ISM conference in Las Vegas. My presentations are part of the “Emerging Practitioner” track designed to... Read more
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Ardent Partners Publishes Annual State of Procurement Report
Ardent Partners’ annual CPO Rising research report is now available. Entitled, CPO Rising 2014: Convergence and authored by Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, this report presents a comprehensive, industry-wide... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – May 2, 2014
Announcement from the Publisher I am pleased to announce that next week CPO Rising will officially start publishing articles on a daily basis (weekdays, that is). This is something we’ve... Read more
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Taking a 360° Approach to Supplier Management
Ardent Partners has just published a new report focused on Supplier Management. The fact is that while meeting suppliers is not particularly difficult, finding the rights ones and managing them... Read more
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Coupa Inspire 2014: Coupa’s New Language of Success
Earlier this month I attended Coupa’s user conference, Coupa INSPIRE, in San Francisco. This second annual conference built upon the success of last year’s event and provided great insight into... Read more
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Acquisti & Sostenibilita Publishes New Sustainable Supply Chain Study
Today, we’re pleased to feature research from Acquisti & Sostenibilità (“Sustainable Procurement”), the Italian organization co-founded by Luca Guzzabocca. Luca is a “friend of the site,” and we profiled him... Read more
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CPO News – US Court Strikes Down Conflict Minerals Provision, Upholds Others
On Monday, April 14, a U.S. Appellate Court struck down key provisions of the landmark 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requiring many American companies to declare... Read more
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April Webinars Bring May… Results (Zycus – April 24)
The analyst team at Ardent Partners has a busy month planned on the research and webinar front so over the next few days, we’ll share (and invite you to) our... Read more
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Procurement’s Evolution (Part IV): Convergence with Contingent Workforce Management
Ardent’s State of Contingent Workforce Management report (available for complimentary download here, here, or here) features a variety of groundbreaking concepts and ideas, one being the industry’s very-first official Contingent... Read more