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Ardent Partners Publishes Annual State of Procurement Report

By Andrew Bartolini May 5, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners’ annual CPO Rising research report is now available. Entitled, CPO Rising 2014: Convergence and authored by Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, this report presents a comprehensive, industry-wide…

April Webinars Bring May… Results (Coupa – April 10)

By Andrew Bartolini April 9, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

The analyst team at Ardent Partners has a busy month planned on the research and webinar front so over the next few days, we’ll share (and invite you to) our…

Rites of Spring (2014): Procurement’s “Annual Cleaning”

By Andrew Bartolini April 2, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Lists, People, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Although it's still a little chilly in our neck of the wood (Boston), spring is officially upon us so, now is the time to move those sweaters to the bottom…

Great Moments in Procurement History

By Andrew Bartolini April 1, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists

The fine readers of this fine site are well aware that the CEO of the world's best known (and most beloved?) company, Tim Cook CEO of Apple used to a…

April Webinars Bring May… Results (Hubwoo – April 9)

By Andrew Bartolini April 1, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Solution Providers, Strategy

The analyst team at Ardent Partners has a busy month planned on the research and webinar front so over the next few days, we'll share (and invite you to) our…

Ariba LIVE 2014: Deutsche Bank’s “No Budget, No PO, No Pay” Plan

By Andrew Bartolini March 24, 2014Articles, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

The 15th annual Ariba LIVE conference was held at the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Conference Center in Las Vegas last week with a reported 2,200 procurement and finance professionals in attendance…

What Every Executive Should Know About Business Networks

By Andrew Bartolini March 17, 2014Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

This is your final chance to participate in our annual AP market research study - click here to take the survey. All participants get a free copy of the final…

Fail-safe

By Andrew Bartolini February 10, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy

When things don’t go according to plans, the unprepared are often forced to just grin and bear it and hope that no one notices or that the total impact of…

Procurement’s Evolution, Part II: Convergence with Travel

By Andrew Bartolini February 3, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Process, Strategy

Today, we continue our series that highlights procurement’s (and the chief procurement officer’s) evolving influence within the greater enterprise. Each of these articles will tackle a business function or enterprise…

Announcing the “CPO Rising 2014” Survey

By Andrew Bartolini January 29, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategy

Ardent Partners conducts one procurement-themed market research study each year and I'd like to invite you to participate in it - our annual CPO Rising research effort - by clicking…