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From Airman to Spaceman: Bill McNally’s Ascent into NASA Procurement
Over the past several months, Ardent Partners and IBM-Emptoris have worked to bring together several best-in-class chief procurement officers around specific themes with the express aim of garnering the best... Read more
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Where Do Freelancer Management Systems (FMS) Fit into Today’s CWM Industry?
To say that the contingent workforce industry has evolved considerably over the last decade is underselling the strategic importance of its progression. This isn’t a matter of simple advancements in... Read more
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Research Preview: Next-Gen Spend: Accelerating Procurement Performance with Data-Driven Strategies
Today’s article is a preview of a report that Ardent Partners recently published entitled, Next-Gen Spend: Accelerating Procurement Performance with Data-Driven Strategies. The report is sponsored by GEP and interested readers... Read more
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AP Predictions for 2015: B2B Payments Become a Strategic Business Process
Following our series on trends in accounts payable, Payables Place is going to take a look at predictions for the future of the AP function. Today’s installment, the last of four, will... Read more
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AribaLIVE 2015: Looking to the Future of Business Commerce
[Publisher’s Note: Today’s article is an analysis of two similar but separate presentations delivered by Ariba executives at their user conferences this spring. The first was at AribaLIVE in Las... Read more
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Two Days With Beeline and the Future of the Extended Workforce
[Editor’s note: Last week, resident contingent workforce management (CWM) expert and Ardent Partners research director, Christopher J. Dwyer, joined Vendor Management System (VMS) provider Beeline for their annual user conference... Read more
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Three Prerequisites for Collaborative Sourcing
The speed and complexity of business has been increasing in recent years and shows no sign of slowing down. Globalization means that new geographies and supply markets keep opening up;... Read more
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BravoAdvantage: Taking Sourcing and Supplier Management to the “Next Level”
Ahead of BravoSolution’s user group in London this week, we caught up with Jim Wetekamp, BravoSolution’s CEO and Andrea Brody, Bravo’s new SVP of Marketing, to get a general update and discuss... Read more
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Webinar: Collaborative Procurement: Using Relationships to Drive Influence and Results
Join Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini on a June 17th (2 pm ET) webinar sponsored by Puridiom when he presents the findings from his upcoming report “Collaborative Procurement: Using Relationships to... Read more
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The True Impact of Procurement on Contingent Workforce Management
CPO Rising has, for quite some time, featured content that speaks to the growing role of procurement in managing the contemporary contingent workforce. Ardent Partners’ landmark State of Contingent Workforce... Read more