“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring Lead Sponsor Hubwoo
Thank you for taking time out of your frenzied shopping schedule to visit us today. Today is Cyber Monday. What began as an afterthought to “Black Friday,” six years ago…
Investing in ePayables? What is Your ROI?
Today's article is by Vishal Patel, Research Director, ePayables at Ardent Partners. Ardent Partners has initiated its technology coverage with the launch of the ePayables SMARTSet™ - a low-cost, comprehensive…
Bridging the Social Media Gap (Use Case Example)
Today is the third article focused on our view of the potential impact that social networking will have in reshaping Supply Management (or B2B or P2P relationships). The first -…
750 Million People Can’t Be Wrong (a.k.a. How Social Networking Will Reshape Supply Management)
Today's article continues our discussion of Ardent Partners' new report that takes a forward-looking view of the top social networking platforms in the context of the work environment and highlights…
Business or Pleasure: How Social Networking Will Reshape Supply Management?
There has been a paradigm shift in the way people communicate and interact and, social networks are at the core of this shift. The underlying capabilities and drivers behind the…
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…
Getting over the Adoption Hump: Spend Analysis
Today's Adoption Series entry follows our last article which looked at the concept of a “learning curve” and argued that until users find the new process to be more efficient…
The Path to P2P Excellence Runs Through Finance and Procurement
In our last article, we discussed the opportunity that exists for many enterprises to improve their P2P operations (P2P is defined more broadly as Procurement and Accounts Payable - not…
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…
Adoption Series – Getting Over the Hump
I guess today (Wednesday) is “Hump Day” – It’s not a term I’ve ever incorporated into my everyday conversations. To be honest, I actually try to avoid using it because…