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Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Welcoming Back CPO Rising Hall of Famer, Hal Good

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team November 6, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners is pleased to welcome back Harold “Hal” Good, a lifelong procurement practitioner, procurement “luminary,” and CPO Rising Hall of Famer, to CPO Rising 2017. He will host an Expert Roundtable…

Spend Analysis: A Primer for Beginners

By Andrew Bartolini November 3, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Editor's Note: At this point, many of our readers ought to know not only what spend analysis is, but also its value proposition. Still, it is worthwhile to revisit the…

The Future of Supply Risk Management: Highlights from riskmethods’ 2017 User Conference

By Andrew Bartolini November 1, 2017Articles, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

A few weeks ago (October 19), a couple analysts (Andrew and Matthew) on the team at Ardent Partners attended riskmethods' user conference at its headquarters in Boston's Financial District. As its name indicates,…

Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Welcoming Back John Zagata of Enbridge

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 31, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, Events, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners is pleased to welcome John Zagata, Director of Indirect Goods and Services for Enbridge, back to Boston in a week for The CPO Rising 2017 Summit. John will deliver…

How to Navigate Your Spend Analysis Journey: Guideposts for Optimal Solution Selection (Webinar!)

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 30, 2017Articles, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

On Tuesday, November 14 at 2 PM ET, join Ardent Partners' Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, and SpendHQ's Chief Revenue Officer, David Bush, for a complimentary webinar entitled, How to Navigate…

Supplier Information Management – A Key Enabler You Probably Don’t Have

By Andrew Bartolini October 27, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners research consistently finds that suppliers will remain a top focus for Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and their procurement organizations over the next three years. This makes sense since…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 218: The Enterprise of the Future

By Christopher Dwyer October 25, 2017Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

Welcome to another all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week’s main topic of discussion is the “enterprise of the future,” and how specific attributes related to the…

Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Introducing Jeffrey Ball, CPO of Digital First Media

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 25, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners is pleased to welcome Jeffrey Ball, Chief Procurement Officer of Digital First Media, to CPO Rising 2017. Jeff will deliver a presentation entitled “Putting the ‘Strategic’ in Strategic…

Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Welcoming Back Bill Michels

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 24, 2017Articles, Events, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners is pleased to welcome back to CPO Rising Bill Michels, CEO at Aripart Consulting and a longtime procurement practitioner. We had the chance to catch up with Bill…

Procurement Influencer Series: Tom Beaty, CEO of Insight Sourcing Group & SpendHQ – Part II

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 23, 2017Articles, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript of an interview by Andrew Bartolini with Tom Beaty, CEO of Insight Sourcing Group & SpendHQ. Some of the questions have been edited for brevity and clarity. Picking up…