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Services Procurement And The Future Of Work: A Conversation With Paul Vincent, Global Head Of Services Procurement At Randstad Sourceright

By Christopher Dwyer August 17, 2021Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Solution Providers

Last week, Randstad Sourceright announced the appointment of Paul Vincent as its Global Head of Services Procurement. In this Future of Work Exchange feature, Paul joins us to talk about…

Procurement Performance in 2021

By Andrew Bartolini August 16, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People

Peter Drucker said the difference between management and leadership is “doing things right” (i.e., management) and “doing the right things” (i.e., leadership). The procurement profession needs more and stronger leadership.…

The Agile Workforce Runs on Talent Marketplaces and Talent Communities

By Christopher Dwyer August 13, 2021Articles, Complex Categories, General, People

Last year, Ardent Partners predicted that the global business landscape would experience a sharp uptick in the utilization of non-employee labor as a direct result of the pandemic’s sweeping impact…

Throwback Thursday: How New or Improved Technologies Can Transform Procurement – Supplier Management

By Andrew Bartolini August 12, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

[Editor’s Note: We continue our “Throwback” series with a look at how improved technologies can transform procurement] As Chief Procurement Officers (“CPOs”) and procurement practitioners move forward, they have the…

ePayables 2021: To Be Strategic, AP Must Act Strategic

By Andrew Bartolini August 11, 2021Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay

Swagger is often an understated element of success. After all, nothing succeeds like success! Those that act like they can win and succeed are often those that perform the strongest…

Let’s Not Ignore Worker Burnout

By Christopher Dwyer August 10, 2021Articles, Complex Categories, General

In late spring 2004, I graduated from Suffolk University with a degree in print journalism. In-between traversing between temporary accounting and finance gigs, I knocked on the doors of every…

Procurement 2021: Recommendations for the Year

By Andrew Bartolini August 9, 2021Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General

Ardent recently completed its sixteenth annual CPO-themed market research study, “The State of Procurement & the CPO”, which is part of an ongoing dialogue that my team and I have had with…

New Webinar: The State of ePayables 2021

By Andrew Bartolini August 6, 2021Articles, Events, General, Procure-to-Pay

Join Ardent Partners’ Bob Cohen, Vice President of Research, on Tuesday, August 10th at 1 PM ET for a complimentary webinar presentation based on our flagship market research report “The…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 603: “Hot Vax Summer” Meets the Delta Variant

By Christopher Dwyer August 5, 2021Articles, Complex Categories, Contingent Workforce Weekly, General, Podcast

An all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly episode, sponsored by DZConneX, a Yoh company, highlights how summer reopenings and return-to-office plans are currently being derailed by the Delta variant…

ePayables 2021: Reporting and Analytics are Job One

By Andrew Bartolini August 4, 2021Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay

While AP’s momentum continues to build, there is more work to be done to keep improving perceptions and have AP viewed more favorably within the enterprise. In 2021, AP groups…