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Keeping Score
In the survey for our upcoming research report, we pose the question: Savings impact on procurement bonuses: To what extent do savings results drive your bonus structure? Less than 25%... Read more
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RESEARCH SURVEY – Innovative Ideas for the Next Decade (Please Read and React)
It’s favor time again and this one is important to me. Ardent Partners is planning a single market research effort focused on CPOs and other procurement executives in 2011. Starting... Read more
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The CFO and the CPO: One World, Two Worldviews
We are only in the early stages of our Chief Procurement Officers on the Rise in 2011, but before we resume, I wanted to highlight a few excerpts from my... Read more
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And Now, A Word About Our Sponsors
Happy Groundhog Day! – just kidding The most watched sports event in the United States takes place this Sunday in Dallas – Super Bowl XLV kicks off on Sunday at... Read more
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Webinar: Five New Year’s Resolutions for More Effective T&E Management
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.... Read more
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The Formula
I find it interesting that Ardent Partners’ recently published research report, Sourcing in the 2010s: The Formula for Success (registration required), is, at its core, a report about spend analysis.... Read more
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Monday Morning Query – Can Sourcing be Strategic Without the “e?”
MMQ – Can sourcing be strategic without the “e?” The Context In this day and age, can a sourcing process that eschews process automation be considered a truly strategic process?... Read more
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Sourcing – The Formula for Success
We’re pleased to announce that Ardent Partners, a leading analyst firm focused on supply management (and in case you forgot, the partner entity to CPO Rising), has published its first... Read more
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Ardent Partners – Open for Business (Summer Version)
July 14 is a day of revolution for one proud nation. As I write this article, I am in the town where many Patriots awoke 234 years ago, rode a... Read more