Keeping Score
Even the Chief Procurement Officers who focus almost solely on savings realize that procurement can deliver value across a wide range of areas. To misquote Vince Lombardi, "Savings isn't everything....…
Staples: Cloud-Based Business Apps For Small Biz… That Was Easy
Yes, I’m talking about the same Staples where you buy your pens and copy paper. About a month ago, Staples announced the launch of the Staples App Center, an innovative…
CPO News – March 1, 2013
All the CPO News That's Fit to Print New South African Chief Procurement Officer to Lead Transformation and Fight Huge Corruption Earlier this week, South African Minister of Finance, Pravin…
Five Considerations When Selecting a Business Network
Supplier networks have existed for many years and over the initial years slowly gained in popularity. Today, however, these networks are a quickly growing trend and an increasingly cost effective…
Send a Lieutenant
From the Archives (May 19, 2010) but, with a few updates: This one is worth another look if simply for the picture - Wow! In January of 2007, “Mister Softee”…
Bring a Lieutenant
From the Archives (May, 18, 2010 but, with a few updates): I was recently reminded of this article as I exchanged notes with the the CPO profiled in this article…
Concentra: An ePayables Case Study
Concentra is a health care company that provides occupational medicine, urgent care, physical therapy, and wellness services to workers and the general public from 308 medical centers in 40 states.…
CPO Rising: Keeping Score (Webinar)
Over the past few weeks, I have been sharing key findings from Ardent Partners' latest research report, CPO Rising: Keeping Score. And, I will continue to share findings going forward.…
From CPO to EVP & Global Head of Business Services
In January, 2010, I made a series of predictions for the decade ahead in the second article ever published on this site. The first prediction was: Many of today’s leading…
The Value of Accounts Payable
Another great article from Vishal Patel, the research director in charge of all ePayables research at Ardent Partners. He is also the editor-in-chief of Payables Place, a site that is…