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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…

Getting over the Adoption Hump: Spend Analysis

By Andrew Bartolini October 26, 2011Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

Today's Adoption Series entry follows our last article which looked at the concept of a “learning curve” and argued that until users find the new process to be more efficient…

The Path to P2P Excellence Runs Through Finance and Procurement

By Andrew Bartolini October 20, 2011Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology1 Comment

In our last article, we discussed the opportunity that exists for many enterprises to improve their P2P operations (P2P is defined more broadly as Procurement and Accounts Payable - not…

An ePayables Business Case Made Easy

By Andrew Bartolini October 11, 2011Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Technology2 Comments

As we mentioned in an article last week, Ardent Partners is initiating its technology coverage with the launch of the its first SMARTSet™. A SMARTSet is a low-cost, comprehensive set…

Technology Adoption – An Expert’s View: Iasta (1)

By Andrew Bartolini October 7, 2011Articles, General, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

As part of our ongoing Technology Adoption series, we thought it would be helpful to capture and share the perspectives from a few industry leaders who face the challenge of…

Introducing The ePayables SMARTSet

By Andrew Bartolini October 6, 2011Articles, Procure-to-Pay, TechnologyNo Comments

We often highlight the thought-leadership reports and presentations that Ardent Partners publishes/presents on the pages of CPO Rising as a way to share some of our key research findings and…

Six Major Trends for AP in 2012

By Andrew Bartolini October 5, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology18 Comments

While I have personally have spent a good deal of my time over the past six years focusing on the accounts payable market, at Ardent Partners, we have another analyst…

Case Study from the Collaborative Sourcing Report

By Andrew Bartolini August 4, 2011Articles, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

In our last article, we discussed Ardent Partners' recent report focused on Collaborative Sourcing which we define as the process "which blends traditional sourcing approaches with more robust category strategies,…

Collaborative Sourcing

By Andrew Bartolini August 2, 2011Articles, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

The value driven by the average sourcing team over the last decade has, in many cases, been significant and transformative. But, competitive forces at play in a rapidly changing business…

1nnovative 1deas… A New Report from Ardent Partners

By Andrew Bartolini July 26, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Ardent Partners’ latest research effort, CPO Rising 2011: Innovative Ideas for the Decade Ahead, was recently published and is now available from the report underwriters: Bristlecone, Hubwoo, and SAP. This…