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CPO Rising – Site Navigation and Design

By Andrew Bartolini July 21, 2010Articles, General1 Comment

We started CPO Rising because we felt that there was an opportunity to reach/develop/expand an underserved market with interesting articles that provide fresh insight and progressive approaches while also informing,…

CPO Shop Talk: Webinar Q&A

By Andrew Bartolini July 19, 2010Articles, General, Strategy, Technology2 Comments

This edition of Chief Procurement Officer Shop Talk comes directly from the Q&A portion of the webinar that I delivered on July 7th for Zycus. I describe the webinar here…

An ePayables Primer – (1) The Challenges

By Andrew Bartolini July 16, 2010Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, TechnologyNo Comments

Right around the time I left Ariba to enter the analyst ranks in mid-2006, Ariba began making a big push into accounts payable automation which surprised me given my context…

Ardent Partners – Open for Business (Summer Version)

By Andrew Bartolini July 14, 2010Articles, Events, General3 Comments

July 14 is a day of revolution for one proud nation. As I write this article, I am in the town where many Patriots awoke 234 years ago, rode a…

Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis (Part 2B)

By Andrew Bartolini July 12, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

We’ll hop right into today’s article which follows this article (link) chronologically as part of an extended series where we have gotten to know Mario Mosca (amico del sito) and…

Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis (Part 2A)

By Andrew Bartolini July 9, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

We continue today with Part 2A of our case study of how Enel, Europe’s second largest utility company with annual revenue exceeding 64 billion €, made its case for an…

CPO Shop Talk: (1) Meetings to Make Decisions (2) On Winning

By Andrew Bartolini July 6, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

Meetings to Make Decisions I recently caught up with a Chief Procurement Officer who finds himself in the early part of a procurement transformation journey. He's not a career procurement…

Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis

By Andrew Bartolini July 2, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

Last week we introduced you to the procurement operations at Europe's second largest utility company, Enel and its procurement executive in charge of the technology infrastructure and the company processes…

People Get Ready, the Visibility Train is Coming

By Andrew Bartolini June 30, 2010Articles, General, TechnologyNo Comments

Dateline: Sunday June 27 – FIFA World Cup Round of 16: Germany 4 England 1 Full Story on Lampard’s goal that never was. Replay of Lampard's goal that never was.…

BIG Trends

By Andrew Bartolini June 28, 2010Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

In business circles, supply management is the new black. Next week, I will be discussing some of the BIG Trends that I see shaping spend (or supply) management in the…