Dispatch from IBM Empower 2016
Ardent's analysts attend dozens of conferences each year. Typically our coverage of an event lags the event by days (and sometimes, unavoidably, by weeks), but our research objective/goal is not…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 116: State of Contingent Workforce Management Report Preview
Welcome to another edition of the Ardent Partners and CPO Rising podcast, Continent Workforce Weekly. This week’s episode, sponsored by ZeroChaos, highlights some early research findings from the upcoming State…
Bridging the Procurement-HR Gap in Managing “Services Procurement”
"You can't really understand another person's experience until you've walked a mile in their shoes." As procurement continues to gain traction within the enterprise and manage more spend, Chief Procurement Officers and their teams must become stronger…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 115: Game-changing Innovations
Welcome to another edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by ZeroChaos. Episode 115 of our weekly podcast highlights the "gamechanging" innovations in the non-employee workforce industry that are…
Next-Gen CMW Analytics – A Series Introduction
The most interesting aspect regarding the current state of the typical contingent workforce is how the “contingent workforce umbrella” has transformed a once-underutilized strategy into a dominant corporate force. It…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 114: CWM Fantasy Draft
Welcome back to the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week’s episode, sponsored by ZeroChaos, recaps CPO Rising’s 2016 “Contingent Workforce Management” Fantasy Football draft, discusses some recent industry news (including…
Contingent Workforce Management Strategy and the “Great Divide” Between Procurement and HR
Ardent Partners is excited to announce the publication of its new Contingent Workforce Management Strategy Guide (available for download here or here), a new research study that takes a deep…
Is Blockchain a “Future of Work” Gamechanger?
Innovation within the business world is now an accepted attribute. It does not surprise many professionals within the realm of procurement, human resources, finance, or other key functions when new…
The 2016 Contingent Workforce Management Fantasy Draft
For nearly the past seven months, the sports world (Publisher's note: Chris means the US' sports world) has been without perhaps its most popular pastime. Now that the NFL season…
How Will the “Gig Economy” Impact Procurement in 2017?
The procurement function has experienced first-hand business evolution across a variety of attributes, from technology and innovation to the emergence of data-driven strategies. Today’s procurement professionals have the opportunity to…