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Next-Gen CWM Analytics: How User-Level Flexibility Leads to Agile Analytics

By Christopher Dwyer October 17, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Process, Strategy, Technology

The contract talent industry has experienced a strategic evolution over the past few years, one that has seen this complex category shift from an understated workforce alternative to viable corporate…

ePayables Study Hall: The Opportunities

By Andrew Bartolini October 14, 2016Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

ePayables Study Hall – The Opportunities Last time, the ePayables Study Hall series began with a look at some (but, not all) of the key challenges facing the average accounts…

ePayables Study Hall: The Challenges

By Andrew Bartolini October 13, 2016Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Over the next few weeks, we will spend some time focusing on ePayables by presenting an educational series– an "ePayables Study Hall," if you will – that is intended as…

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…

How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eProcurement

By Andrew Bartolini October 7, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

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 –…

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…

Innovation Continues to Drive the Evolution of Procurement Technology (Report Preview!)

By Andrew Bartolini October 4, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

Ardent Partners’ latest and greatest technology-focused research, Sourcing and Procurement: The 2016-2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report! Click here to download, has published and is now available to download. Click here to get your…

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…