Three Strategic CWM Capabilities That Matter
Within the framework of modern contingent workforce management, enterprises across the globe realize that the age of merely managing staffing suppliers as an alternative workforce is long dead and gone.…
Four Questions Every Company Should Ask About Their HR and Procurement Convergence
Convergence has been a hot topic around CPO Rising in 2014 (in fact, Ardent colleague and CPO Rising founder, Andrew Bartolini, focused his CPO-centric research report on this topic). Within…
Business Networks – Past, Present, and Future
Today’s article is the second in a series of articles centered on our new Technology Adoption Report on Business Networks, sponsored by Hubwoo, and available for download here. While analyzing the technology markets…
Which Technologies Help Achieve ePayment Success?
Welcome to the final entry in a four-part series that previews Ardent Partners’ upcoming ePayments Rising research study. The pending research report, which is due to publish soon, highlights the…
An Agent of Change: Dr. Nick Nayak’s Impact at the Department of Homeland Security
This year we have been working to deliver a “CPO Rising Virtual Roundtable” series, sponsored by IBM. Each of the roundtables brings together three or four leading Chief Procurement Officers…
Three Travel / Expense Management Metrics That Matter
It’s been previously stated here at CPO Rising that the business travel category has been on both a budgetary and strategic rise over the past half-decade; as more and more…
Research Preview: The State of Strategic Sourcing in 2014
In the next few weeks, the analyst team at Ardent Partners will publish our annual State of Strategic Sourcing benchmark study. This study builds on last year’s research on the…
How Does the Finance Team Benefit from ePayments?
Welcome to the third entry in a four-part series that previews Ardent Partners’ upcoming ePayments Rising research study. The pending research report, which is due to publish soon, highlights the…
DHS Procurement: Securing the Homeland, One Purchase at a Time
This year we have been working to deliver a “CPO Rising Virtual Roundtable” series, sponsored by IBM. Each of the roundtables brings together three or four leading Chief Procurement Officers…
The Four Pillars of the Modern Strategic Sourcing Program
We’re gearing up to launch our annual benchmark study on the state of strategic sourcing and the excitement is..... palpable. The topic is so rich and exciting that throughout the…