Monday First Thing: Our Procurement Mantra for 2019? “Value Expansion!”
As I enter year 20 in this industry and year 10 at Ardent Partners, I've spent a significant amount of time reflecting on the progression of the Chief Procurement Officer…
Webinar! Procurement 2019: Big Trends and Predictions – January 29!
2019 is shaping up to be a wild year. We're not even a month in and business leaders are already seeing the continuation of trends from 2018 and wondering what…
Throwback Thursday: The “CPO Bump”
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering "Research with Results" to Chief Procurement Officers and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations,…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 325: The Talent Experience (and the Human Elements of the Future of Work)
Welcome to another all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by Checkr. This week, we take an interesting look at an oft-overlooked aspect of the Future of Work:…
Self-Service, Agility and Digital Transformation: Q&A from the CPO Rising 2018 Technology Panel
Last week, we had a look at best practices in managing supplier and contract lifecycles, by Julien Nadaud, Chief Product Officer, Determine, Inc., who spoke at Ardent Partners’ third annual CPO Rising…
Scout RFP Receives Series C Funding to Drive Further Growth in 2019
Earlier this week, Scout RFP, the San Francisco-based provider of cloud-based strategic sourcing tools, made a couple of significant announcements to its community -- first, that 2018 was yet another banner year…
Throwback Thursday: What’s Past is Prologue!
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and events.…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 324: What’s In Store for the World of Work in 2019?
The Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast returns with an all-new episode. This week’s edition, sponsored by Checkr, is a look ahead to the hot-button issues of 2019, including: How artificial intelligence…
Join Us for Our Annual Procurement BIG Trends and Predictions Webinar (Jan 29)!
Get ready for 2019 by registering for the first webinar in Ardent's monthly webinar series and hear about the BIG procurement trends we've been seeing and the BIGGER predictions we're going…
CPO Rising 2018: Self-Service, Agility, and Digital Transformation
A look at best practices in managing supplier and contract lifecycles, by Julien Nadaud, Chief Product Officer, Determine, Inc., who spoke at Ardent Partners' third annual CPO Rising procurement executive summit…