NEW WEBINAR: Procurement 2026: BIG Trends and Predictions
Join Ardent Partners and Ivalua on January 22nd (11 AM ET) as they discuss Procurement 2026: BIG Trends and Predictions. Calling all CPOs!!!! As global markets stabilize and AI moves…
Best of 2025: AI in Action — Procurement: A Conversation with Fairmarkit
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2025 articles as we reflect on last year and begin tackling 2026. A New AI…
Best of 2025: Part One: Scale New Heights — How Technology is Transforming Spend Management
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2025 articles as we reflect on last year and begin tackling 2026. Did you miss…
Best of 2025: AI in Action — Procurement: A Conversation with Ivalua
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2025 articles as we reflect on last year and begin tackling 2026. A New AI…
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! To commemorate the occasion (and for “auld lang syne”), we will continue to reprise a few of our favorite articles from the last year. After that, we…
Best of 2025: Stop Talking Costs: 7 Ways CPOs Can Master the C-Suite
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2025 articles as we reflect on last year and begin tackling 2026. [Today’s article was…
Best of 2025: AI in Action — Procurement: A Conversation with Precoro
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2025 articles as we reflect on last year and begin tackling 2026. A New AI…
Happy Holidays from Ardent Partners!
Another year will soon be in the books and 2026 is going start with a bang! (Register for our Big Trends & Predictions Webinar here) Until then, we want to…
Agentic AI and the Next Evolution of Procurement — From Automation to Autonomous Value Creation
Did you miss the recent webinar "From Pilot to Payoff: 5 Strategies to Turn AI into ROI," featuring Andrew Bartolini, founder and chief research officer for Ardent Partners, and Rinus…
CPO Rising 2025 Series: Procurement’s Top Priorities and Strategies
Over the last several weeks, Ardent Partners has gone back in time with its "State of Procurement (A Retrospective)" series, featuring executive insights from its previous State of Procurement reports…