Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part One
It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that "it is an exciting time to work in procurement." And this is no less true today than it…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – ePayments
In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…
Adaptation and the Changing World of Work
H.G. Wells’ “adapt or perish” adage, now more than ever, is the contemporary business’ inexorable imperative. As heightened global competition for market share has created extraordinary pressure to execute seamlessly,…
Procurement Performance: Moving Beyond Savings
CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade – Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to help advance…
CPO Scorecard: Our Performance Measurement Recommendation
CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade – Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to help advance…
CPO Opportunity: Harvesting Supplier Innovation
CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade – Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to help advance…
CPO Challenge: Mapping Processes to Systems
CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade – Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to help advance…
Chief Procurement Officers: Developing Procurement Mastery
CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade – Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to…
A Portrait of the CPO as a Young Man or Woman
CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade - Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to…
Is the Conflict Minerals Provision in Dodd-Frank Going Away?
As we noted in our recent 2017 Procurement: Big Trends and Predictions webinar, the current U.S. trade policies and the regulatory environment should be tracked more closely because change is…