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How Category Intelligence can Drive Procurement Agility on “Buy or No Buy” Decisions (Guest Post)
[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest publication from Beroe Inc. 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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Payables Place First Thing: Unpaid invoices: Liabilities or Assets?
Most people rightfully assume an unpaid invoice is a liability. After all, an invoice means you or your organization owe another organization or person payment for goods or services they... Read more
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What Upwork’s IPO Filing Means for the World of Digital Staffing
Between the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast and insights here on CPO Rising, we’ve come to learn that the Future of Work runs on three core attributes: technology, talent, and the... Read more
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Ardent’s Analysis: Coupa Acquires VMS Provider DCR Workforce
Last Tuesday afternoon, leading business spend management and cloud solution provider, Coupa Software, announced that it had acquired the “technology assets” of Vendor Management System (“VMS”), DCR Workforce (“DCR”). Terms... Read more
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Building the SMB Case for Expense Management Automation
For SMB leaders, time, money, and organizational focus must be balanced to ensure that the short-term needs of the business are addressed and that the long-term goals of the business... Read more
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Set Your Course for Procurement Transformation
The fact of the matter is that most procurement organizations struggle to do things very well or even consistently well. Certainly there are groups (often referred to by Ardent Partners... Read more
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Turn the Big Data “Crisis” into Big Data Opportunities — Join us at CPO Rising 2018!
Big Data for Procurement — Crisis, or Opportunity? With the rise of business process automation tools, cloud-based applications, mobile solutions, connected devices (i.e., the “Internet of Things”), and Big Data... Read more
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Ardent Partners’ Autumn Events Round-Up
As summer turns to fall, like so many leaves will do here in New England, we at Ardent Partners wanted to take a moment to round up and highlight some of... Read more
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Be a Part of the “Age of Intelligence” for Procurement – Join Us At The CPO Rising 2018 Summit
The Dawn of a New Age for Procurement As a procurement leader, you know better than most that businesses and consumers are now fully engulfed by technology and the data... Read more
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Six CPO Strategies for Navigating Through and Managing Change
The interesting angle to navigating change is how exactly Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and their teams react to it; in an age when “agility” has become a desired status for... Read more