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The Ardent Partners analyst team attended the 2024 Ivalua NOW: Procurement Re-Imaged conference on May 22nd and 23rd in Miami. This event came on the heels of the company’s slightly…
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January 26, 2011
The next five My Predictions for the New Decade Part 2 Next generation supply management solutions will drive advances far beyond those achieved in the last decade. The critical value…
January 24, 2011
A few predictions for this decade… For many years now, the arrival of every new calendar sends me into a list-making frenzy that consumes several weeks as I work to…
January 21, 2011
Another big procurement issue is how to collaborate and engage with the business. This article looks at one way strategy that can help achieve both: Today we will focus on…
January 20, 2011
I’ve said it before: The world is becoming more and more data driven. The enterprise is also becoming more and more data driven – whether it is strategic planning or…
January 18, 2011
Over the years, my supply management research has, at times, taken a process focus or a technology focus or an industry focus or a regional focus or a role focus.…
January 14, 2011
More on the universal challenge of properly aligning processes and systems… When you talk to procurement organizations large and small about the primary challenges that impede that group’s ability to…
January 13, 2011
Traded comments this week with a friend of the site, where I made the point that many challenges facing procurement departments are universal – for both large and small enterprises.…
January 12, 2011
Since this article’s first run, Boston CPOs have begun meeting on occasion. How about the CPOs in other major cities/regions? The CPOs in the Bay Area have an informal group…
January 11, 2011
Among other topics, Ardent Partners’ upcoming report The CFO and the CPO: One World, Two Worldviews tackles the big issue of procurement performance measurement. This article looks at a golden…
January 10, 2011
Our retrospective continues with a few CPO strategies While the cost of some marketing programs can be excessive, effective campaigns can pay huge dividends for many years. One of the…
