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The Path to P2P Excellence Runs Through Finance and Procurement

By Andrew Bartolini October 20, 2011Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology1 Comment

In our last article, we discussed the opportunity that exists for many enterprises to improve their P2P operations (P2P is defined more broadly as Procurement and Accounts Payable - not…

CPO & CFO: Building a More Perfect Union

By Andrew Bartolini October 19, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Solution Providers, Strategy3 Comments

We keep finding ourselves drawn to the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) - Chief Procurement Officer (“CPO”) relationship story because it is one of the most difficult and challenging within the…

Q&A with Daniel Warn, CPO of BCBSRI (1)

By Andrew Bartolini October 17, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy1 Comment

Last month I had the opportunity to participate in a webinar that focused on the issues of procurement performance and procurement value and the fundamental differences that exist between the…

CPOs on the Rise in 2011: Calling all Suppliers

By Andrew Bartolini October 3, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

CPOs on the Rise in 2011 continues - In our last article we introduced you to an EMEA-based Chief Procurement Officer who works for a company that operates in 38…

CPOs on the Rise in 2011: Calling All Suppliers

By Andrew Bartolini September 30, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

So, where were we? Ahh, that’s right – the CPOs on the Rise in 2011 series is back and with a big push coming up we plan to focus on…

CPO Shop Talk – Career Transitions: A Sign of the Times

By Andrew Bartolini September 21, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, PeopleNo Comments

In what is surely a "sign o' the times," over the past two weeks, I have connected with several leading Chief Procurement Officers who are all moving on to other…

Corporate Culture and its Impact on Technology Adoption – Results

By Andrew Bartolini September 9, 2011Articles, General, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

According to authors P. Montana and B. Charnov (in the 2008 edition of their book, Management) by way of Wikipedia, Corporate culture is defined as the “total sum of the…

Webinar: Strategies to Manage and Improve Procurement Performance

By Andrew Bartolini September 8, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, GeneralNo Comments

Editor's Note: An archive of this webinar is available by clicking here; while the report that fueled my portion of it is available here (registration required at each) A brief…

Corporate Culture and its Impact on Technology Adoption (2)

By Andrew Bartolini September 6, 2011Articles, General, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Our Adoption Series continues by trying to answer the following question: Does corporate culture impact user adoption of technology? If so, how? by describing and then analyzing the performance of…

Corporate Culture and its Impact on Technology Adoption (1)

By Andrew Bartolini September 1, 2011Articles, General, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

Our Adoption Series continues by looking at the following question: Does corporate culture impact user adoption of technology? If so, how? In a webinar focused on Procurement Technology Adoption held…