
During my years as an analyst, Iāve heard āWe want to be the Salesforce of procurementā many times. Yet, procurement is one of the few spaces that lacks truly dominant…
CPO RISING – THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

During my years as an analyst, Iāve heard āWe want to be the Salesforce of procurementā many times. Yet, procurement is one of the few spaces that lacks truly dominant…
According to authors P. Montana and B. Charnov (in the 2008 edition of their book, Management) by way of Wikipedia, Corporate culture is defined as the ātotal sum of the…
Editor’s Note: An archive of this webinar is available by clicking here; while the report that fueled my portion of it is available here (registration required at each) A brief…
Our Adoption Series continues by trying to answer the following question: Does corporate culture impact user adoption of technology? If so, how? by describing and then analyzing the performance of…
Our Adoption Series continues by looking at the following question: Does corporate culture impact user adoption of technology? If so, how? In a webinar focused on Procurement Technology Adoption held…
Today, we continue our Technology Adoption Series – Ardent Partnersā latest research report[i] introduced the concept of a āProcurement Competency Matrixā which looks at a list of many of the…
Our ongoing Adoption series continues – but, before drilling down into why the different supply management technology adoption rates are what they are, we wanted to present the market adoption…
As part of our ongoing Adoption series, today we present the market adoption rates by enterprises of the primary supply management applications used to support the Source-to-Settle process. I make…
Editor’s Note: An archive of this webinar is available by clicking here (registration required) Our recent Adoption Series, seen by clicking here, will continue this week with a look at…
Dateline Boston 2011: Analyst firm, Ardent Partners’ recent research shows that savings is the top business pressure driving Chief Procurement Officers to perform… Stop the Presses![i] Yes, it is true.…

On Monday, this small story (hat tip: Susan) that sits at the intersection of globalization, sourcing, international crime, corporate conspiracy, food supply, and supply risk captured my attention. The story…
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