ISM 2016: Behind the ISM Manufacturing Index
Last month, the Ardent Partners analyst team took the short flight out to Indianapolis to attend the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) 101st annual conference. For the second year in a row,…
Webinar! The Future of Procurement Analytics: How to Get BIG Value from BIG Data
For those working in procurement and supply management, BIG Data is a BIG opportunity...don't let it become a BIG Problem! Join Ardent Partners and Tamr on a webinar on Thursday, June 23 at 2:00 PM. Learn More and Register Now!…
Procurement Analytics in 2016: The Quest for Visibility
Editor's Note: Today we're talking about procurement analytics and the quest for visibility in 2016. On June 23, we're going to be discussing The Future of Procurement Analytics: How to Get…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 103: The Technology Ecosystem
Last week, Episode 102 of Contingent Workforce Weekly featured a discussion of the lessons we can learn from the Golden State Warriors, an NBA team that is only two games…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – Spend Analysis
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 –…
ISM 2016: Five Values You Share with Millennials
One of the hottest trends in supply management over the past year has been to discuss the rise of the Millennial Generation and how they are on deck, ready and…
3 Reasons AP is Vital to Cash Management
Accounts payable (“AP”) in the modern age has the potential to become a hub of financial and operational intelligence for the greater enterprise, pushing this once back-office function into new…
ISM 2016: Reaching Millennials with Technology
Earlier this month, the Ardent Partners analyst team took the short flight out to Indianapolis to attend the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) 101st annual conference. For the second year in a…
Private Equity Firm to Buy SciQuest and Take it Private
On Tuesday, North Carolina-based SciQuest (Nasdaq: SQI), which offers a suite of cloud-based supply management solutions, announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Accel-KKR, an Atlanta and…
Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 102: Lessons Learned from the Golden State Warriors
Last week, CPO Rising announced that it will produce my new weekly podcast series, Contingent Workforce Weekly (catch up here if you missed last week’s episode). Every Wednesday at noon,…