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Business or Pleasure: How Social Networking Will Reshape Supply Management?

By Andrew Bartolini November 16, 2011Articles, General, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

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

By Andrew Bartolini October 28, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Solution Providers, Strategic SourcingNo Comments

(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

By Andrew Bartolini October 26, 2011Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

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

By Andrew Bartolini October 20, 2011Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology1 Comment

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

By Andrew Bartolini October 19, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Solution Providers, Strategy3 Comments

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

By Andrew Bartolini October 12, 2011Articles, General, Technology2 Comments

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…

An ePayables Business Case Made Easy

By Andrew Bartolini October 11, 2011Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Technology2 Comments

As we mentioned in an article last week, Ardent Partners is initiating its technology coverage with the launch of the its first SMARTSet™. A SMARTSet is a low-cost, comprehensive set…

Technology Adoption – An Expert’s View: Iasta (2)

By Andrew Bartolini October 10, 2011Articles, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

As part of our ongoing Technology Adoption series, we thought it would be helpful to capture and share the perspectives from a few industry leaders who face the challenge of…

Technology Adoption – An Expert’s View: Iasta (1)

By Andrew Bartolini October 7, 2011Articles, General, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

As part of our ongoing Technology Adoption series, we thought it would be helpful to capture and share the perspectives from a few industry leaders who face the challenge of…

Introducing The ePayables SMARTSet

By Andrew Bartolini October 6, 2011Articles, Procure-to-Pay, TechnologyNo Comments

We often highlight the thought-leadership reports and presentations that Ardent Partners publishes/presents on the pages of CPO Rising as a way to share some of our key research findings and…