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Is Your Procurement Team Best-in-Class? Four Key Enablers for Success

By Phil Bartolini July 23, 2019Chief Procurement Officers, People, Strategy

[Editor’s Note: Join us tomorrow, July 24 at 12pm ET, for a complimentary webinar presentation entitled “Is Your Procurement Team Best-in-Class? Four Key Enablers for Success” (click to register), sponsored…

Announcing the Agenda for CPO Rising 2019 Procurement Executive Summit

By Andrew Bartolini July 22, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Lists, People, Strategy

In 2019, the procurement profession still has momentum and is more critical to business operations and results than ever before. But, a decade of Ardent Partners research shows that the…

Throwback Thursday: The Strategies that Propelled Tim Cook from CPO to CEO (1)

By Andrew Bartolini July 18, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, People, Strategy6 Comments

Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and…

Monday First Thing: Reaching for AI in Procurement: A Frank Discussion on its Potential and Reality

By Andrew Bartolini July 15, 2019Articles, Lists, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Here's a great interview staring Ardent Partners' Senior Research Analyst and tech futurist, Matthew York, and SpendHQ's Director of Product Marketing, Constantine Limberakis, on the role that artificial (or augmented) intelligence…

AP’s Plan for 2019: Boost the Insights, Lose the Paper

By Andrew Bartolini July 12, 2019People, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy

[Editor’s Note: You can download The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence Report by clicking here.] A modern AP operation can differentiate itself from historical iterations by executing…

Throwback Thursday: Demand Aggregation – Multiple Requisitions

By Andrew Bartolini July 11, 2019Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Six Strategies to Manage Supplier and Third-Party Risk

By Andrew Bartolini July 10, 2019Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

Organizations today and for the foreseeable future must have visibility into supplier and third-party operations in order to mitigate risks and achieve compliance. But, that is often easier said than…

The Human Capital Management Strategies That Will Transform Contingent Workforce Management

By Christopher Dwyer July 9, 2019Articles, Complex Categories, Lists, Strategy1 Comment

Over five years ago, Ardent’s research discovered that the contingent workforce market was becoming more “talent-led” than “commodity-led,” translating into the need for contingent workforce management (CWM) programs to effectively…

Zycus’s Analyst Day: A “Magical” Time in Park City

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team July 8, 2019Articles, Complex Categories, Events, General, Lists, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Park City, Utah is home to majestic mountain views, great skiing, breath-taking hiking (literally), and bountiful wild game. It hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics, and very recently, it hosted Zycus's Analyst…

The CFO: From CPA to CEO (in-Waiting)

By Andrew Bartolini July 5, 2019Articles, People, Strategy

From the earliest of entrepreneurs to the largest of today’s global corporations, significant time and resources have been invested in the development of financial management expertise and capabilities – an…