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What’s the Best Way to Maximize Your Business Travel Budget? Part I

By Christopher Dwyer April 27, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategy

Editor’s Note: Today’s article was developed from an interview with resident Ardent Partners business travel / expense management, Christopher J. Dwyer, with the team at MarketWatch. To gain more insight…

CPO Rising 2015: The Agility Agenda – “Nine out of 10 CPOs Agree…”

By Andrew Bartolini April 23, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy2 Comments

Ardent Partners recently published my annual CPO-themed report - CPO Rising 2015: The Agility Agenda (click to download, registration required) - that is drawn from the responses of more than 300…

CPO News – April 22, 2015

By Andrew Bartolini April 22, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing

Carnival Corporation Appoints Julia M. Brown as First Chief Procurement Officer On March 25, Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CUK), the world's largest travel and leisure brand, announced that it has appointed Julia M.…

CPO Rising 2015: The Agility Agenda (Report) is Now Available

By Andrew Bartolini April 17, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Process, Strategy, Technology2 Comments

I am very pleased to announce that my annual CPO Rising report is now available for download by clicking here (registration required). I began publishing an annual CPO-focused report in 2006…

CPO Serial: Four Lessons Learned, Our CPO Reflects Part II

By Andrew Bartolini April 16, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Lists, People, Process, Strategy

Over the past four months, Ardent Partners has presented one Chief Procurement Officer’s insightful and fascinating foray into a procurement outsourcing project that has gone terribly wrong. [Readers can review…

Ariba LIVE 2015: AIG’s Technology Journey

By Andrew Bartolini April 15, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

Last week our team attended Ariba LIVE, which is arguably, along with the ISM conference in May, one of the two largest and most significant events in our industry. Over…

Spend Analysis & Sourcing: Connecting the Sourcing Dots for Greater Value

By Andrew Bartolini April 13, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

I recently exchanged notes with a colleague who commented that recently, CPO Rising seems to have been very focused on operational procurement and complex spend management over the past month…

CPO Serial: Four Lessons Learned, Our CPO Reflects Part I

By Andrew Bartolini April 10, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, People, Process, Strategy

CPO Serial: Four Lessons Learned, Our CPO Reflects Part I Over the past four months, Ardent Partners has presented one Chief Procurement Officer’s insightful and fascinating foray into a procurement…

The State of Strategic Sourcing: Collaborate and Connect the Dots

By Andrew Bartolini April 9, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Over the past couple of months, Ardent Partners has featured analysis from The State of Strategic Sourcing 2014: Connecting the Dots, which published in Q4 last year and is currently available. Interested…

What will the Internet of Things Mean for Procurement? In a Word: Collaboration

By Andrew Bartolini March 30, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

In the first installment in this series, CPO Rising highlighted how the Internet of Things (IoT) will impact procurement operations and improve the way its people, processes, and technologies operate…