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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 117: October Listener Mailbag

By Christopher Dwyer October 12, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Technology

This week’s episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by ZeroChaos, is an October “listener mailbag” edition. During today’s podcast, we address and answer questions related to: The real…

Next-Gen CWM Analytics: VMS and the Path to True Intelligence

By Christopher Dwyer October 10, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Technology

Ardent Partners has identified the components to “agile analytics” within a contingent workforce management (CWM) program, a concept that builds upon the foundation of business intelligence (BI) and applies its…

Dispatch from IBM Empower 2016

By Andrew Bartolini October 6, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

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

By Christopher Dwyer October 5, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

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”

By Christopher Dwyer September 30, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategy

"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

By Christopher Dwyer September 28, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, People, Strategy, Technology

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

By Christopher Dwyer September 28, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, Process, Technology

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

By Christopher Dwyer September 21, 2016Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

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

By Christopher Dwyer September 20, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Strategy

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?

By Christopher Dwyer September 14, 2016Articles, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Strategy, Technology2 Comments

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…