The CPO’s March Madness – Elite 8
What began as the 32 top CPO tools, strategies and ideas now stands as an elite list of 8. The CPO Rising Tournament 2012 seeks to answer one simple question…
Analyst Q & A – 2012 Outlook (1)
When I'm not working diligently sourcing stories, interviews and ideas for this site, CPO Rising, I wear an industry analyst hat (but I am still laser-focused on supply management) and…
State of the CPO – Reporting Structure
Our “State of the Chief Procurement Officer” discussion, focusing on Ardent Partners’ latest research report, CPO Rising 2011: Innovative Ideas for the Decade Ahead, continues today. It is no accident…
CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – Jean Cloutier: Moving the Business (Part 2)
Today we have part two of a profile of "friend of the site," Jean Cloutier, Senior Director of Strategic Procurement at Air Transat. Part one is here. In 2002, Air…
CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – Jean Cloutier: Moving the Business (Part 1)
Jean Cloutier, Senior Director of Strategic Procurement at Air Transat, is our latest “CPO on the Rise in 2011” who helped build a procurement department and then develop its strategy…
CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – Eric Beylier: The CEO’s Direct Report (Part 3)
Our profile of Eric Beylier, the Head of Global Supply Chain & Procurement (Chief Procurement Officer) at TETRA Technologies, Inc. concludes today (It began here and continued here). Since the…
CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – Eric Beylier: The CEO’s Direct Report (Part 2)
Our story with CPO on the Rise in 2011, Eric Beylier, the Head of Global Supply Chain & Procurement (Chief Procurement Officer) at TETRA Technologies, Inc. continues today with a…
CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – Eric Beylier: The CEO’s Direct Report (Part 1)
After a slightly longer than expected break, our CPOs on the Rise in 2011 series ramps back up this month and will go "full throttle" over the summer. We have…
Executive Engagement: The CEO
If procurement warrants a C-level role within the enterprise (and by the title of this site you know that we think it does), the Chief Procurement Officer should begin to…