Some Guidance on How to Thrive in the New World of Work
What is the “new world of work”? Simply put, it is driven by not only the mindset behind how talent is engaged, sourced, and managed, but also (ultimately) how work…
Payables Place First Thing: AP Automation: Beyond Transactional Efficiency
Throughout my career, I’ve worked with hundreds of companies looking to automate their Accounts Payable operations. Typically, the organizations are drowning in paper, suffering from manual, time-consuming, costly, error-prone processes…
Technology Round-Up – March 29, 2018
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of supply management technology news and updates from the past month to share with our community. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 234: The Impact of Culture on the Future of Work
This week’s all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by ZeroChaos, focuses on how both corporate and workplace culture directly impacts the adoption of Future of Work-era innovations,…
Best Practices in Supplier Management – A 360 Degree View
A fact of 2018 is that while meeting suppliers is not particularly difficult, finding the right ones and managing them well is. Heightened volatility in a market that has become increasingly…
The Top Priorities of Today’s Contingent Workforce Management Programs
As the non-employee workforce continues to grow, more enterprises are subsequently finding incredible value through the utilization of freelancers, independent contractors, temporary workers, and professional services. However, with this growth…
The Marketplace is the Future – A Briefing with Tradeshift
The research team at Ardent Partners recently met with Tradeshift in its San Francisco headquarters. CEO and Chairman, Christian Lanng led the discussion attended by Chief Strategy Officer, Sarika Garg, Chief Marketing Officer, David Ahrens and other…
Intelligence-Driven CSR: Putting Big Data to Good Use
Business intelligence, namely procurement intelligence, can be a force for good in the world. Armed with good intelligence, Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and their teams have the power to not only…
Payables Place First Thing: Thoughts from SAP Concur Fusion: Delivering Value to Customers, Growth though the Partner Ecosystem, and Analytics Front and Center
After spending the better part of last week in Las Vegas at SAP Ariba Live, this week I headed to the beautiful Pacific Northwest to attend the SAP Concur Fusion in Seattle…
New Webinar from Ardent Partners: Top Strategies for P2P Success in the Mid-Market
The development of a Best-in-Class P2P program takes, among other things, sponsorship, effort, collaboration, vision, expertise, and a supporting technology infrastructure. Superior program design also remains a critical element in…