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CPO Opportunity: Harvesting Supplier Innovation

By Andrew Bartolini March 2, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy

CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade – Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to help advance…

CPO Challenge: Mapping Processes to Systems

By Andrew Bartolini March 1, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

Chief Procurement Officers: Developing Procurement Mastery

By Andrew Bartolini February 28, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy

CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade – Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to…

A Portrait of the CPO as a Young Man or Woman

By Andrew Bartolini February 27, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy

CPO Rising 2017: Tools of The Trade - Ardent Partners conducts an annual procurement-themed market research study each year and this is it. By taking the survey, you have an opportunity to…

Is the Conflict Minerals Provision in Dodd-Frank Going Away?

By Andrew Bartolini February 24, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Technology

As we noted in our recent 2017 Procurement: Big Trends and Predictions webinar, the current U.S. trade policies and the regulatory environment should be tracked more closely because change is…

The Criteria for Selecting Spend Analysis Technology

By Andrew Bartolini February 21, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Publisher's Note: Today's article is a preview from our recent report, Spend Analysis: The Foundation for Procurement Excellence, sponsored by SpendHQ. Interested readers can download this report by clicking here…

How CIOs and CPOs Learned to Stopped Worrying and Love Innovation

By Andrew Bartolini February 6, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Editor’s Note: This article is based upon Ardent Partners’ recent report, The CPO and CIO’s New Approach to Evaluating Enterprise Technology (sponsored by Coupa). Click to download (registration required). Historically, most Chief…

How Innovative Supply Management Technologies Create Opportunity for CPOs

By Andrew Bartolini January 30, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

Editor's Note: This article is based upon Ardent Partners’ recent report, The CPO and CIO’s New Approach to Evaluating Enterprise Technology (sponsored by Coupa). Click to download (registration required). The age of…

Procurement 2017: When Trends Collide

By Andrew Bartolini January 27, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Strategy

Each January, the research team at Ardent Partners gathers and performs a comprehensive review of the primary research that we have conducted over the past 24 months. We then gaze into…

One Job, Two Legacies: How CIOs and CPOs Historically Evaluated Enterprise Technology

By Andrew Bartolini January 23, 2017Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

For some time, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and IT departments have been in the driver’s seat when it comes to evaluating and adopting technology solutions. However, Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and procurement…