Best Practices in Supplier Identification
In an age where enterprises are more reliant upon their suppliers than at any other time in history, it is a fundamental truth that to achieve both procurement success and…
Learn How to Turn Procurement Intelligence Into Procurement Agility – The CPO Rising 2018 Summit
With the rise of Big Data, advanced analytics, and next-generation supply management applications, Chief Procurement Officers and their teams are more agile today than at any time in the history…
The Age of Intelligence: Ascending to the Next Level of Procurement Performance – New WEBINAR!
Are you free next Tuesday, September 25 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time? Join Ardent Partners' Founder and Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, on a webinar entitled The Age of Intelligence:…
Set Your Course for Procurement Transformation
The fact of the matter is that most procurement organizations struggle to do things very well or even consistently well. Certainly there are groups (often referred to by Ardent Partners…
Turn the Big Data “Crisis” into Big Data Opportunities — Join us at CPO Rising 2018!
Big Data for Procurement -- Crisis, or Opportunity? With the rise of business process automation tools, cloud-based applications, mobile solutions, connected devices (i.e., the “Internet of Things”), and Big Data…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 311: A Conversation with Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer of Ardent Partners
Welcome to another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week, we (finally) sit down for a discussion with Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, to chat about…
Be a Part of the “Age of Intelligence” for Procurement – Join Us At The CPO Rising 2018 Summit
The Dawn of a New Age for Procurement As a procurement leader, you know better than most that businesses and consumers are now fully engulfed by technology and the data…
CPO News – August 28, 2018
Welcome to the summer edition of CPO News! We'd be remiss if we didn't end the summer sharing some of the higher-profile appointments, promotions, and scandals that occurred in the…
Six CPO Strategies for Navigating Through and Managing Change
The interesting angle to navigating change is how exactly Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and their teams react to it; in an age when “agility” has become a desired status for…
In Case You Missed It: Highlights from the CPO Rising 2017 Summit!
As we gear up to take the field for CPO Rising 2018 in less than three months, we can't help but reflect on what a success (and great fun) CPO…