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Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Introducing Jeffrey Ball, CPO of Digital First Media
Ardent Partners is pleased to welcome Jeffrey Ball, Chief Procurement Officer of Digital First Media, to CPO Rising 2017. Jeff will deliver a presentation entitled “Putting the ‘Strategic’ in Strategic... Read more
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Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Introducing Walter Charles of Biogen
Walter Charles III is the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) at Biogen. As the article below highlights, he is also a highly-successful innovator who has consistently over-delivered in every procurement role that... Read more
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Supplier Performance and Risk Management – Bosom Buddies
Ardent Partners research consistently finds that suppliers will remain a top focus for Chief Procurement Officers (“CPOs”) and their procurement organizations over the next three years. This makes sense since... Read more
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Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Introducing Chris Shanahan of BD – Part II
I’ve known Chris Shanahan, Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) at BD for nearly a decade, and I am beyond thrilled to welcome him to Boston in November as one of our keynote speakers... Read more
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The Top Ten Reasons to Attend the CPO Rising 2017 Summit
There is now one month until The CPO Rising 2017 Summit, Ardent Partners’ annual procurement symposium. Have you registered yet? There are only a few days left to take advantage... Read more
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Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Introducing Chris Shanahan of BD – Part I
I’ve known Chris Shanahan, Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) at BD for nearly a decade, and I am beyond thrilled to welcome him to Boston in November as one of our keynote speakers... Read more
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CPO Rising 2017: Procurement Hurdles (and last chance to download!)
While the tech adoption and mastery issues discussed previously here on CPO Rising are not unique to procurement departments, the major hurdles that Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) face in pursuit of their... Read more
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Webinar! Strategic Spend Management – Last Chance to Register (9/27)!
“By surveying thousands of distinct organizations over the years, Ardent Partners has been able to clearly establish that the groups that manage very high levels of spend perform significantly better... Read more
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Meet the Speakers of CPO Rising 2017! Welcoming Back Bill McNally of NASA
Last year, we were fortunate to have Bill McNally, deputy chief acquisition officer at NASA, who directs procurement across the entire space agency, join Ardent Partners’ inaugural CPO Rising Procurement Executive... Read more
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Measuring Procurement Performance – Not So Easy After All
Editor’s Note: Join Ardent Partners’ analysts and 150 global procurement and supply chain leaders and practitioners for Ardent’s second-annual CPO Rising Procurement Executive Summit here in Boston on November 8... Read more