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Becoming a Chief Procurement Officer
Publisher’s Note: This report is now available in the Ardent Partners library at a substantial discount. Click here to learn more. When you were a kid, what did you want to... Read more
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“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring “Sourcing in the 2010s” Report
For “Cyber Week,” we are running a few “promotions”- including our sponsors and our own time-sensitive, cyber-promotions of the research over on Ardent Partners (they will be time-sensitive, so make... Read more
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“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring An AP Business Case Template
For “Cyber Week,” we are running a few “promotions”- for our sponsors and for our own time-sensitive, cyber-promotions of the research over on Ardent Partners (they will be time-sensitive, so... Read more
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Investing in ePayables? What is Your ROI?
Today’s article is by Vishal Patel, Research Director, ePayables at Ardent Partners. Ardent Partners has initiated its technology coverage with the launch of the ePayables SMARTSet™ – a low-cost, comprehensive... Read more
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750 Million People Can’t Be Wrong (a.k.a. How Social Networking Will Reshape Supply Management)
Today’s article continues our discussion of Ardent Partners’ new report that takes a forward-looking view of the top social networking platforms in the context of the work environment and highlights... Read more
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Business or Pleasure: How Social Networking Will Reshape Supply Management?
There has been a paradigm shift in the way people communicate and interact and, social networks are at the core of this shift. The underlying capabilities and drivers behind the... Read more
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CPO Shop Talk (1) An Adoption Roundtrip (2) Webinar Nov 1 (3) Market Alert
(1) An Adoption Roundtrip Over a home-cooked team dinner (asian fusion) at one Chief Procurement Officer’s house this week, I fell into a discussion with a Director of Direct regarding... Read more
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The Path to P2P Excellence Runs Through Finance and Procurement
In our last article, we discussed the opportunity that exists for many enterprises to improve their P2P operations (P2P is defined more broadly as Procurement and Accounts Payable – not... Read more
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CPO & CFO: Building a More Perfect Union
We keep finding ourselves drawn to the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) – Chief Procurement Officer (“CPO”) relationship story because it is one of the most difficult and challenging within the... Read more
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An ePayables Business Case Made Easy
As we mentioned in an article last week, Ardent Partners is initiating its technology coverage with the launch of the its first SMARTSet™. A SMARTSet is a low-cost, comprehensive set... Read more