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1nnovative 1deas… A New Report from Ardent Partners

By Andrew Bartolini July 26, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Ardent Partners’ latest research effort, CPO Rising 2011: Innovative Ideas for the Decade Ahead, was recently published and is now available from the report underwriters: Bristlecone, Hubwoo, and SAP. This…

CPO Shop Talk (London Edition): (1) Bravo’s Take on Procurement Value (2) Capital Assets (3) Career Planning

By Andrew Bartolini July 22, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Solution ProvidersNo Comments

The second part of this week (and the reason for the late timing of this article) found me in London for two procurement-related events on behalf of BravoSolution (Bravo also…

The Adoption Series (2) – You Are Not Alone

By Andrew Bartolini July 19, 2011Articles, General, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

While I personally find the adoption rates of supply management technologies in the marketplace to be generally disappointing (for example, eProcurement solutions, which only 52% of enterprises have adopted[1]) and…

CPOs on the Rise: Executive Q&A

By Andrew Bartolini July 14, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, StrategyNo Comments

Somehow, I have been sitting on this discussion with a global procurement leader for far too long. I share with you now, the verbatim Q&A conducted several months ago. How has…

CPOs on the Rise: Q&A with Luca Guzzaboca

By Andrew Bartolini July 12, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, StrategyNo Comments

Luca Guzzabocca, the Director of Procurement, Logistics, HSE and Security Management at Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A. (of the Montepaschi Group) has returned with us today to join…

The Adoption Series (1)

By Andrew Bartolini July 8, 2011Articles, General, TechnologyNo Comments

Having been immersed in the world of supply management technology (development, packaging, usage) for many years, I was startled by the market adoption numbers I found in my first market…

F/X Effects

By Andrew Bartolini July 6, 2011Articles, General, StrategyNo Comments

I have the great fortune to be working on an interesting strategy consulting project (procurement-related) for a multi-national that will keep me in Europe for the next few weeks. I…

P2P Excellence – Design for Success (2)

By Andrew Bartolini July 1, 2011Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, TechnologyNo Comments

This article was written by Vishal Patel, Research Director at Ardent Partners In our last article, (found here), we talked about Ardent’s P2P research series that is aimed at helping…

P2P Excellence – Design for Success (1)

By Andrew Bartolini June 29, 2011Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, TechnologyNo Comments

This article was written by Vishal Patel, Research Director at Ardent Partners Ardent Partners is in the process of publishing a series of reports that are designed to help organizations…

Webinar – Collaborative Sourcing: Achieving the Next Wave of Sourcing Savings

By Andrew Bartolini June 27, 2011Articles, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology4 Comments

Editor's Note: An archive of this webinar is available by clicking here; while the report that fueled my portion of it is available here (registration required at each) Next Wednesday,…