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…
NEW RESEARCH SURVEY: The State of Contingent Workforce Management
From the procurement perspective, there is no more complex category of corporate spend than contingent labor. Once a simple indirect spend category that merely required some supplier optimization and eProcurement…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 310: Three Reasons Why Talent is the Gateway to the Future of Work
Another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast features a discussion of the three main reasons why “talent” (and the evolution of talent engagement) is the gateway to the…
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…
CPO News – August 28, 2018
Welcome to the summer edition of CPO News! We'd be remiss if we didn't end the summer sharing some of the higher-profile appointments, promotions, and scandals that occurred in the…
Payables Place First Thing: The Expected Trajectory of AP – Part I
[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the…
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…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 309: A Future of Work “Grab Bag”
Welcome to another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week’s edition is a “grab bag” discussion of various Future of Work-related topics, including how and why artificial…
In Case You Missed It: Highlights from the CPO Rising 2017 Summit!
As we gear up to take the field for CPO Rising 2018 in less than three months, we can't help but reflect on what a success (and great fun) CPO…
Just Two Weeks Remain for Early-Bird Pricing to the CPO Rising Summit!
With the “dog days of summer” upon us, it’s easy to forget that the fall is right around the corner. And that is why we at Ardent Partners want to…