September 26, 2025
The role and strategic agenda of the chief procurement officer (CPO) have evolved over the past decade. In this ongoing series, we revisit what defined procurement and the CPO’s agenda…
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August 13, 2021
Last year, Ardent Partners predicted that the global business landscape would experience a sharp uptick in the utilization of non-employee labor as a direct result of the pandemic’s sweeping impact…
August 12, 2021
[Editor’s Note: We continue our “Throwback” series with a look at how improved technologies can transform procurement] As Chief Procurement Officers (“CPOs”) and procurement practitioners move forward, they have the…
August 11, 2021
Swagger is often an understated element of success. After all, nothing succeeds like success! Those that act like they can win and succeed are often those that perform the strongest…
August 10, 2021
In late spring 2004, I graduated from Suffolk University with a degree in print journalism. In-between traversing between temporary accounting and finance gigs, I knocked on the doors of every…
August 9, 2021
Ardent recently completed its sixteenth annual CPO-themed market research study, “The State of Procurement & the CPO”, which is part of an ongoing dialogue that my team and I have had with…
August 6, 2021
Join Ardent Partners’ Bob Cohen, Vice President of Research, on Tuesday, August 10th at 1 PM ET for a complimentary webinar presentation based on our flagship market research report “The…
August 5, 2021
An all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly episode, sponsored by DZConneX, a Yoh company, highlights how summer reopenings and return-to-office plans are currently being derailed by the Delta variant…
August 4, 2021
While AP’s momentum continues to build, there is more work to be done to keep improving perceptions and have AP viewed more favorably within the enterprise. In 2021, AP groups…
August 3, 2021
[Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on The Future of Work Exchange website. The Future of Work Exchange (powered by Ardent Partners) is the premier destination for those HR, talent acquisition,…
August 2, 2021
Ardent recently completed its sixteenth annual CPO-themed market research study, “The State of Procurement & the CPO”, which is part of an ongoing dialogue that my team and I have had with…
