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CPO Rising Listicle: Revisiting This Year’s Top Barriers to CPO Success

By Andrew Bartolini December 8, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Lists, People, Process, Strategy

Fridays (in 2023) means that it’s time for another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement…

Technology Round-Up — December 6, 2023

By John Yuva December 6, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up Series returns today with fresh supply management technology news and updates covering a few recent major announcements. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management solution provider…

Magnus Mondays: Procurement Tech — Suites vs. Specialists Part Four: How Your Spend Profile Impacts Your Strategy

By Magnus Bergfors December 4, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Over the last couple of weeks, we have published a series of articles on the topic of solution suites vs. specialist providers in the procurement technology space. In the first…

CPO Rising Listicle: 10 Ways CPO Rising Brings Engagement and Education to Readers

By Andrew Bartolini December 1, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategy

Magnus Mondays: Procurement Tech — Suites vs. Specialists Part Three: I Wish I Was Special

By Magnus Bergfors November 27, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

In part 1 of this series, we introduced and framed the familiar topic of suites vs. specialists in the procurement solutions space. And last week in part 2, we looked…

Magnus Mondays: Procurement Tech — Suites vs. Specialists Part Two (Home Suite Home)

By Magnus Bergfors November 20, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

In last week’s article, we kicked off our discussion on suites vs. specialist providers by discussing the primary considerations in setting an overall procurement technology strategy. Generally, it is not…

Magnus Mondays: Procurement Tech — Suites vs. Specialists Part One (Framing the Decision)

By Magnus Bergfors November 13, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

A question that keeps coming up in the procurement world is: What is the better technology strategy, investing in a broader suite (think source-to-pay) or a collection of specialist providers?…

The Importance of Visibility to CPOs in 2024

By Andrew Bartolini November 10, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Lists, Strategy

With 2024 around the corner, now is a good time for chief procurement officers to take stock of strategic imperatives for the year ahead — namely, spend visibility. Big data…

Magnus Mondays: The Proliferation of Procurement Solutions

By Magnus Bergfors November 6, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategy, Technology

A little more than a decade ago when I joined Gartner and started out as an analyst, there were basically a handful of vendors that mattered and another handful that…

Ardent Partners Hires Magnus Bergfors, former Gartner Analyst

By Andrew Bartolini November 1, 2023Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Procurement Rising, Strategy, Technology

[Publisher’s Note: It goes without saying that we're excited to make today’s announcement. I have known Magnus for more than a decade, first as the primary procurement analyst at rival…