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“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring Lead Sponsor BravoSolution

By Andrew Bartolini November 30, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution ProvidersNo Comments

For “Cyber Week,” we are running a few "promotions"- for our sponsors and for our own time-sensitive, cyber-promotions of the research over on Ardent Partners (they will be time-sensitive, so…

“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring An AP Business Case Template

By Andrew Bartolini November 29, 2011Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay, TechnologyNo Comments

For “Cyber Week,” we are running a few "promotions"- for our sponsors and for our own time-sensitive, cyber-promotions of the research over on Ardent Partners (they will be time-sensitive, so…

“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring Lead Sponsor Hubwoo

By Andrew Bartolini November 28, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution ProvidersNo Comments

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?

By Andrew Bartolini November 22, 2011Articles, Procure-to-Pay, TechnologyNo Comments

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)

By Andrew Bartolini November 21, 2011Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

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)

By Andrew Bartolini November 18, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

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?

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…