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Procurement 2024: BIG Prediction – Buyer Beware: “Fake News” Invades Supply Markets
For more than a decade, Ardent Partners’ senior analyst team has gathered in Boston for a multi-day company strategy and planning meeting. The team dedicates itself to reviewing the prior... Read more
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Magnus Mondays — Navigating the Raw Essentials: A Primer on Direct Materials
In one of my articles about suites vs. specialists, I briefly mentioned dedicating a future piece to direct materials. Today’s article will do just that. I’ll look at direct materials... Read more
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Guest Article: How to Navigate 2024 with Confidence — Procurement’s “Words of the Year”
[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest post from Market Dojo, a technology company offering Software as a Service built by procurement professionals, for procurement professionals. Its solutions enable procurement to... Read more
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NEW WEBINAR — How CPOs Can Unlock Financial Value with a Tech-Forward Approach
Join Ardent Partners and GEP on February 29th (2 PM ET) for a webcast on How CPOs Can Unlock Financial Value with a Tech-Forward Approach. The “year of efficiency” that... Read more
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Magnus Mondays — Contract Lifecycle Management: A Different but Critical Procurement Technology
Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) has come a long way in the last 25 years or so. The technology started as simple databases where some key metadata was collected to enable... Read more
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CPO Rising Listicle: Every CPO Faces 3 BIG Questions
Fridays (in 2024) 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... Read more
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Magnus Mondays: Don’t Believe the Hype! (Or at Least Apply Some Caution)
Back in 1996, Bill Gates wrote “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.... Read more
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CPO Rising Listicle: Train and Retain Staff with Four More Great Strategies for CPOs
Fridays (in 2024) 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... Read more
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Magnus Mondays — Graphite Connect: Supplier Management, Network Style
As part of the Magnus Mondays series featuring the latest procurement technology trends and insights, we will also spotlight interesting briefings and updates that we receive from different solution providers... Read more
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CPO Rising Listicle: Hire and Retain Top Talent with Four Strategies
Fridays (in 2024) 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... Read more