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750 Million People Can’t Be Wrong (a.k.a. How Social Networking Will Reshape Supply Management)

By Andrew Bartolini November 18, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Today's article continues our discussion of Ardent Partners' new report that takes a forward-looking view of the top social networking platforms in the context of the work environment and highlights…

Business or Pleasure: How Social Networking Will Reshape Supply Management?

By Andrew Bartolini November 16, 2011Articles, General, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

There has been a paradigm shift in the way people communicate and interact and, social networks are at the core of this shift. The underlying capabilities and drivers behind the…

SNAFU

By Andrew Bartolini October 31, 2011Articles, StrategyNo Comments

Supply Disruption (Candy) - Halloween in Massachusetts Today, October 31, 2011 is not Halloween, at least in certain parts of Massachusetts. It has been postponed. A "Nor'easter" has taken down…

Q&A with Daniel Warn, CPO of BCBSRI (2)

By Andrew Bartolini October 24, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

Our CPOs on the Rise series continues today with Part Two of a Q&A with another "friend of the site" - Daniel Warn (Part One is found here). Dan is…

CPO & CFO: Building a More Perfect Union

By Andrew Bartolini October 19, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Solution Providers, Strategy3 Comments

We keep finding ourselves drawn to the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) - Chief Procurement Officer (“CPO”) relationship story because it is one of the most difficult and challenging within the…

Q&A with Daniel Warn, CPO of BCBSRI (1)

By Andrew Bartolini October 17, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy1 Comment

Last month I had the opportunity to participate in a webinar that focused on the issues of procurement performance and procurement value and the fundamental differences that exist between the…

CPOs on the Rise in 2011: Calling all Suppliers

By Andrew Bartolini October 3, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

CPOs on the Rise in 2011 continues - In our last article we introduced you to an EMEA-based Chief Procurement Officer who works for a company that operates in 38…

CPOs on the Rise in 2011: Calling All Suppliers

By Andrew Bartolini September 30, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

So, where were we? Ahh, that’s right – the CPOs on the Rise in 2011 series is back and with a big push coming up we plan to focus on…

Analyst Q&A – 2012 Outlook (2)

By Andrew Bartolini September 26, 2011Articles, General, StrategyNo Comments

Today, we continue with the second part of the content from my recent media interview that focused on the current business cycle and where we are headed in 2012. Part…

Analyst Q & A – 2012 Outlook (1)

By Andrew Bartolini September 22, 2011Articles, General, StrategyNo Comments

When I'm not working diligently sourcing stories, interviews and ideas for this site, CPO Rising, I wear an industry analyst hat (but I am still laser-focused on supply management) and…