YouTube Hall of Fame – Procurement: Research Councils UK
Today’s induction into our YouTube Hall of Fame for Procurement is Nicola Dunne, the Chief Procurement Officer at the Research Councils UK. I had the pleasure to meet Nicola this…
YouTube Hall of Fame – Procurement: Merck
With a hat tip to Grantland, a new ESPN site, founded this year by a fellow HC alum, we've decided to offer up our own "YouTube Hall of Fame." We…
A CPO with a Great Foundation
Publisher's Note: This report is now available in the Ardent Partners library at a substantial discount. Click here to learn more. Kevin Clearie’s path to becoming a Chief Procurement Officer started…
Chief Procurement Officer: The Position
Publisher's Note: This report is now available in the Ardent Partners library at a substantial discount. Click here to learn more. The following is an excerpt from one of our recent…
Becoming a Chief Procurement Officer
Publisher's Note: This report is now available in the Ardent Partners library at a substantial discount. Click here to learn more. When you were a kid, what did you want to…
Keeping Time
While our last article, Making Music, was based on a real-world scenario (huge disconnect between two groups in large company) that I recently experienced while working with one client, the…
Making Music
I was recently involved in a very interesting situation where one group ("Group 1") within a large global company pursued an opportunity that it felt it was equipped to support.…
CPO Shop Talk (1) An Adoption Roundtrip (2) Webinar Nov 1 (3) Market Alert
(1) An Adoption Roundtrip Over a home-cooked team dinner (asian fusion) at one Chief Procurement Officer's house this week, I fell into a discussion with a Director of Direct regarding…
Q&A with Daniel Warn, CPO of BCBSRI (2)
Our CPOs on the Rise series continues today with Part Two of a Q&A with another "friend of the site" - Daniel Warn (Part One is found here). Dan is…
CPO & CFO: Building a More Perfect Union
We keep finding ourselves drawn to the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) - Chief Procurement Officer (“CPO”) relationship story because it is one of the most difficult and challenging within the…