October 31, 2025
Over the last several weeks, Ardent Partners has gone back in time with its “State of Procurement (A Retrospective)” series, featuring executive insights from its previous State of Procurement reports…
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July 21, 2020
In April and May, Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management…
July 20, 2020
During my upcoming webinar, “User-Friendly, User-Powerful: The New Consumerization of Procurement“, this Thursday at 2 PM, I will moderate a lively discussion on what it takes for CPOs and procurement…
July 17, 2020
In April and May, Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management…
July 16, 2020
[Editor’s Note: Ardent Founder and Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini is pleased to present a new webinar “Transforming Vendor Performance through Innovative Contract Management” next Wednesday, July 22nd @ 11…
July 15, 2020
Right now we are all facing something unprecedented and unplanned for, and recent events have left many accounts payable (“AP”) departments scrambling to adjust and adapt. Mandatory closing of non-essential…
July 15, 2020
Welcome to another all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week’s episode features a conversation with Praneeth Patlola, CEO of WillHire. Praneeth and I discuss why direct sourcing…
July 13, 2020
In April and May, Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management…
July 10, 2020
In April and May, Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management…
July 9, 2020
Over the past few Thursdays, I have been highlighting the 15 annual CPO/State of Procurement reports that I have written. After several years of focusing on the importance of procurement…
July 8, 2020
Earlier this year, Ardent conducted its yearly procurement benchmark study, CPO Rising, on the current trends in procurement people, processes, technologies, goals, strategies, and challenges. The recent release of The…
