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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February 16, 2022
ANNOUNCING: ARDENT PARTNERS’ PROCUREMENT 2022: BIG TRENDS & PREDICTIONS REPORT At the start of 2022, procurement’s long-term future remains bright, even if things look challenging in the near-term. The COVID-19…
February 13, 2022
Today, Episode 302 of the Procurement Rising Podcast. In this podcast series, I interview Chief Procurement Officers and Best-in-Class procurement leaders as well as technology and business experts working in procurement and supply…
February 11, 2022
I’ve been spending the last few Fridays sharing some predictions that Ardent has I have made about the procurement profession/industry in recent years because next week, we release our 2022 edition…
February 9, 2022
Procurement’s momentum was not thwarted by the global pandemic. Instead, the crisis has provided yet another example of how critical the procurement function is to many enterprises, particularly those with…
February 4, 2022
At the beginning of 2020, my team and I were prepared to launch a large series – “Procurement 2030” on CPO Rising – what procurement would look like in 10…
February 2, 2022
Since January, 2020, our team has dedicated countless hours to bringing our best ideas and writing to the pages of CPO Rising. The site’s tagline, “The Site for Chief Procurement Officers and…
January 31, 2022
Today, Episode 301 of the Procurement Rising Podcast. In this podcast series, I interview Chief Procurement Officers and Best-in-Class procurement leaders as well as technology and business experts working in procurement and supply…
January 28, 2022
At the beginning of 2020, my team and I were prepared to launch a large series – “Procurement 2030” on CPO Rising – what procurement would look like in 10…
January 26, 2022
On January 4, 2010, Ardent Partners launched CPO Rising as a new resource to procurement leaders around the world. The site tagline then (and now) was (and is) straight and…
January 20, 2022
By now, you’ve heard the phrases. “The Big Quit.” “The Great Resignation.” “The Great Reassessment.” Around these parts, we’ve typically referred to the massive, massive numbers of workers voluntarily leaving…
