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Five Ways to Build a Best-in-Class Contingent Workforce Program
The ultimate goal of work optimization is the culmination of next-generation strategies, solutions, and innovations that converge together to reimagine how a business engages and acquires its talent and addresses... Read more
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Monday First Thing: The State of ePayables 2019 – Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence
In 2019, businesses and consumers are now fully engulfed by technology and the data it both creates and captures. The same holds true for accounts payable (“AP”) departments across the... Read more
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Skills for the Modern Procurement Pro – Supply Risk Management
It’s a great and worthwhile pursuit for Chief Procurement Officers to invest in their people, so, in that vein, over the next few weeks we will be analyzing the key skills and capabilities... Read more
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The Talent-Led Strategies that Will Transform Contingent Workforce Management
Over the past several years, Ardent’s research has shown that the contingent workforce market was becoming more “talent-led” than “commodity-led,” translating into the need for contingent workforce management (CWM) programs... Read more
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Driving Sustainability Intelligence with EcoVadis 10 and Beyond
Members of Ardent Partners’ analyst team recently took a briefing from the product marketing team at EcoVadis, a Paris- and New York-based provider of corporate social responsibility (CSR) rating services for procurement and... Read more
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Throwback Thursday: CPO & CFO: Building a More Perfect Union
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and... Read more
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The Link Between SOW/Services Procurement and the Future of Work
The realm of “contingent labor” includes three distinct categories: traditional temporary labor (via staffing suppliers and vendors), “self-sourced” / “directly-sourced” talent, such as independent contractors and freelancers, and “complex contingent... Read more
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Monday First Thing: House of Procurement (Part 3) – Performance Measurement
By now, many of you have read our 14th annual CPO Rising 2019 report. If you haven’t, it is only available for a few more days so… –> click here... Read more
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Help! My Organization is Too Small to Negotiate with Big Suppliers (Guest Post)
[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest publication from UNA. Ardent Partners is happy to review and feature guest publications from authors across the procurement and supply management industry. If... Read more
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CPO Rising 2019: Becoming More Agile, Data-Driven, and Intelligent
Editor’s Note: Today’s article includes a large excerpt from Ardent’s annual “State of Procurement” research report, CPO Rising 2019: Value Expansion. This report is based upon the responses from more than 300... Read more