Taking a 360° Approach to Supplier Management
Ardent Partners has just published a new report focused on Supplier Management. The fact is that while meeting suppliers is not particularly difficult, finding the rights ones and managing them…
Coupa Inspire 2014: Coupa’s New Language of Success
Earlier this month I attended Coupa's user conference, Coupa INSPIRE, in San Francisco. This second annual conference built upon the success of last year's event and provided great insight into…
CPO News – US Court Strikes Down Conflict Minerals Provision, Upholds Others
On Monday, April 14, a U.S. Appellate Court struck down key provisions of the landmark 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requiring many American companies to declare…
April Webinars Bring May… Results (Zycus – April 24)
The analyst team at Ardent Partners has a busy month planned on the research and webinar front so over the next few days, we’ll share (and invite you to) our…
Procurement’s Evolution (Part IV): Convergence with Contingent Workforce Management
Ardent’s State of Contingent Workforce Management report (available for complimentary download here, here, or here) features a variety of groundbreaking concepts and ideas, one being the industry’s very-first official Contingent…
April Webinars Bring May… Results (Staff Management – April 16)
The analyst team at Ardent Partners has a busy month planned on the research and webinar front so over the next few days, we’ll share (and invite you to) our…
The Spring Cleaning Hit-List for Contingent Workforce Management
In celebration of the start of spring (unless you live in the Northeast, which has been stuck in a snow-covered, polar-vortex-fueled winter since after Thanksgiving), today’s CPO Rising article will…
April Webinars Bring May… Results (Coupa – April 10)
The analyst team at Ardent Partners has a busy month planned on the research and webinar front so over the next few days, we’ll share (and invite you to) our…
On the Bubble
March Madness ended on Monday (yesterday, if you follow women's college basketball) and Monday's game, like many that I watched was very competitive and went down to the last minute,…