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CPO Rising Listicle: Best-in-Class CPOs Have 5 Key Characteristics

By Andrew Bartolini April 26, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Lists, People, Strategy

Fridays (in 2024) means that it’s time for another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement…

Magnus Mondays — Make vs. Buy: Procurement Tech Edition

By Magnus Bergfors April 22, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Last week I tackled the question of what to do with a failed P2P implementation. This week I’ll be addressing another common question: Is it a good idea to build…

CPO Rising Listicle: Procurement AI in Action, Part 3

By Andrew Bartolini April 19, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

It's Friday, which means we're sharing another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement teams…

Accenture Grows Procurement Services Through Acquisitions

By Andrew Bartolini & John Yuva April 17, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with a focus on Accenture's latest acquisitions and its growth strategy for Procurement Services. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management…

Magnus Mondays — Is Your Application Really the Problem?

By Magnus Bergfors April 15, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

As a long-time procurement technology analyst, one of the most frequent questions posed to me is what solution an organization should pick after a previous failed implementation. Or, in other…

Magnus Mondays: Zip — One App to Rule Them All?

By Magnus Bergfors April 8, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

We’ve written about intake management and procurement process orchestration (IM&PPO) a couple of times previously. It’s certainly a topic and solution set that is gathering a lot of interest from…

CPO Rising Listicle: Procurement AI in Action, Part 1

By Andrew Bartolini April 5, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

Magnus Mondays — GenAI Is Cool, but Should Everything be Automated?

By Magnus Bergfors April 1, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

If you haven’t heard about generative AI (GenAI), or even been pitched some type of it, then you’ve been hiding under a stone. There are dozens of articles describing GenAI,…

Magnus Mondays — Why Is There No “Mega Vendor” in the Procurement Space?

By Magnus Bergfors March 25, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

During my years as an analyst, I’ve heard “We want to be the Salesforce of procurement” many times. Yet, procurement is one of the few spaces that lacks truly dominant…

CPO Rising Listicle: Don’t Negotiate a Supplier Contract Without These 4 Things

By Andrew Bartolini March 22, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Lists, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy