Visibility: What Does It Mean for CPOs? (Part I)
Welcome to a three-part article series on the concept of “visibility.” The term visibility is thrown around quite frequently in the procurement and spend management worlds, and it is incumbent…
Three Strategic CWM Capabilities That Matter
Within the framework of modern contingent workforce management, enterprises across the globe realize that the age of merely managing staffing suppliers as an alternative workforce is long dead and gone.…
Alicia Ralston: Sowing the Seeds of Collaboration at Archer Daniels Midland
This year we have been working to deliver a “CPO Rising Virtual Roundtable” series, sponsored by IBM. Each of the roundtables brings together three or four leading Chief Procurement Officers…
Technology Round-Up – October 14, 2014
BravoSolution Appoints Jim Wetekamp as its next CEO By Andrew Bartolini Last week, BravoSolution, a supply management solution provider, announced that its current SVP of Solution Strategy and industry veteran,…
Four Questions Every Company Should Ask About Their HR and Procurement Convergence
Convergence has been a hot topic around CPO Rising in 2014 (in fact, Ardent colleague and CPO Rising founder, Andrew Bartolini, focused his CPO-centric research report on this topic). Within…
Business Networks – Past, Present, and Future
Today’s article is the second in a series of articles centered on our new Technology Adoption Report on Business Networks, sponsored by Hubwoo, and available for download here. While analyzing the technology markets…
Introducing Ardent Partners’ Technology Adoption Report on Business Networks
Today’s article is the first in a series of articles centered on our new Technology Adoption Report on Business Networks, sponsored by Hubwoo, and available for download here. While analyzing…
Which Technologies Help Achieve ePayment Success?
Welcome to the final entry in a four-part series that previews Ardent Partners’ upcoming ePayments Rising research study. The pending research report, which is due to publish soon, highlights the…
An Agent of Change: Dr. Nick Nayak’s Impact at the Department of Homeland Security
This year we have been working to deliver a “CPO Rising Virtual Roundtable” series, sponsored by IBM. Each of the roundtables brings together three or four leading Chief Procurement Officers…
Three Travel / Expense Management Metrics That Matter
It’s been previously stated here at CPO Rising that the business travel category has been on both a budgetary and strategic rise over the past half-decade; as more and more…