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Did you miss Ardent Partners’ recent webinar, Evolution of AI in Procurement: The Agentic Age, that shed light on how artificial Intelligence (AI) has come a long way — from basic…
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September 6, 2018
The fact of the matter is that most procurement organizations struggle to do things very well or even consistently well. Certainly there are groups (often referred to by Ardent Partners…
September 5, 2018
Big Data for Procurement — Crisis, or Opportunity? With the rise of business process automation tools, cloud-based applications, mobile solutions, connected devices (i.e., the “Internet of Things”), and Big Data…
September 5, 2018
Welcome to another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week, we (finally) sit down for a discussion with Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, to chat about…
September 4, 2018
In just over 24 hours, Ardent will begin a live, online discussion around its annual State of P2P market research study. This P2P-themed report is part of an ongoing dialogue…
September 3, 2018
The first Monday of September in the United States (and Canada) is a federal holiday called Labor Day. According to the US Department of Labor, “Labor Day is a creation of the labor…
August 31, 2018
[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the…
August 30, 2018
As summer turns to fall, like so many leaves will do here in New England, we at Ardent Partners wanted to take a moment to round up and highlight some of…
August 29, 2018
From the procurement perspective, there is no more complex category of corporate spend than contingent labor. Once a simple indirect spend category that merely required some supplier optimization and eProcurement…
August 29, 2018
Another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast features a discussion of the three main reasons why “talent” (and the evolution of talent engagement) is the gateway to the…
August 28, 2018
The Dawn of a New Age for Procurement As a procurement leader, you know better than most that businesses and consumers are now fully engulfed by technology and the data…
