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CPO Shop Talk (1) An Adoption Roundtrip (2) Webinar Nov 1 (3) Market Alert

By Andrew Bartolini October 28, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Solution Providers, Strategic SourcingNo Comments

(1) An Adoption Roundtrip Over a home-cooked team dinner (asian fusion) at one Chief Procurement Officer's house this week, I fell into a discussion with a Director of Direct regarding…

Q&A with Daniel Warn, CPO of BCBSRI (2)

By Andrew Bartolini October 24, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

Our CPOs on the Rise series continues today with Part Two of a Q&A with another "friend of the site" - Daniel Warn (Part One is found here). Dan is…

CPO & CFO: Building a More Perfect Union

By Andrew Bartolini October 19, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Solution Providers, Strategy3 Comments

We keep finding ourselves drawn to the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) - Chief Procurement Officer (“CPO”) relationship story because it is one of the most difficult and challenging within the…

Q&A with Daniel Warn, CPO of BCBSRI (1)

By Andrew Bartolini October 17, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy1 Comment

Last month I had the opportunity to participate in a webinar that focused on the issues of procurement performance and procurement value and the fundamental differences that exist between the…

CPOs on the Rise in 2011: Calling all Suppliers

By Andrew Bartolini October 3, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

CPOs on the Rise in 2011 continues - In our last article we introduced you to an EMEA-based Chief Procurement Officer who works for a company that operates in 38…

CPOs on the Rise in 2011: Calling All Suppliers

By Andrew Bartolini September 30, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

So, where were we? Ahh, that’s right – the CPOs on the Rise in 2011 series is back and with a big push coming up we plan to focus on…

CPO Shop Talk – Career Transitions: A Sign of the Times

By Andrew Bartolini September 21, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, PeopleNo Comments

In what is surely a "sign o' the times," over the past two weeks, I have connected with several leading Chief Procurement Officers who are all moving on to other…

Webinar: Strategies to Manage and Improve Procurement Performance

By Andrew Bartolini September 8, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, GeneralNo Comments

Editor's Note: An archive of this webinar is available by clicking here; while the report that fueled my portion of it is available here (registration required at each) A brief…

Failing to Leverage Business Value from Technology

By Andrew Bartolini August 29, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, TechnologyNo Comments

Today, we continue our Technology Adoption Series - Ardent Partners’ latest research report[i] introduced the concept of a “Procurement Competency Matrix” which looks at a list of many of the…

Savings and Everything After

By Andrew Bartolini August 18, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

Dateline Boston 2011: Analyst firm, Ardent Partners' recent research shows that savings is the top business pressure driving Chief Procurement Officers to perform... Stop the Presses![i] Yes, it is true.…