Season’s Greetings from Ardent Partners (& CPO Rising)!
Season's Greetings, from all of us at Ardent Partners May your influence on spend and suppliers be ever-expanding and may your savings always be significant and validated. Have a great…
Category Sourcing Scorecard – User Instructions
As I mentioned last time, Ardent Partners' Category Sourcing Scorecard is now available by clicking here (reg. required) and brought to you by BravoSolution. For those of you who have…
The Category Sourcing Scorecard is Now Available
Earlier this year, I wrote a series of posts discussing the creation of a Category Sourcing Scorecard. Today, I am pleased to announce that Ardent Partners' Category Sourcing Scorecard is…
YouTube Hall of Fame – Procurement: When I Grow Up, I Want to Work in Procurement
Last December, we inducted the video below into our YouTube Hall of Fame for Procurement. At the time it had 108 views, this video has clearly gone a little viral (admittedly,…
CPO News – December 12, 2012
Today's CPO News is sponsored by the number 12. Diamond Foods Appoints David Colo New EVP Diamond Foods, Inc. has announced that David J. Colo has been appointed to the…
Provider Profile: Hubwoo Q4, 2012 (Part 3)
Today, we continue with Part Three of our focus on Hubwoo, the supply management solution provider and operator of one of the world’s largest business (or B2B or supplier) networks…
Provider Profile: Hubwoo Q4, 2012 (Part 2)
Today, we continue with Part Two of our focus on Hubwoo, the supply management solution provider and operator of one of the world's largest business (or B2B or supplier) networks…
Provider Profile: Hubwoo Q4, 2012 (Part 1)
Today, we begin a two-part three-part series focused on Hubwoo and its recent re-launch of its network, “The Business Network.” Note that this “Provider Profile” series is a sneak preview…
Ardent Partners’ Plans for 2013
Regular readers know that this site is published by Ardent Partners, a leading research and advisory firm focused on supply management. With the New Year just around the corner, we…
STEP CHANGE: How Business Networks are Changing the Procurement Paradigm
With all of the recent market activity, it is not surprising that more and more people are talking about and focusing on Business Networks (sometimes referred to as B2B, Supplier,…