CPO News – December 2, 2016
Vivint Appoints New CPO Vivint Smart Home, the largest smart home services provider in North America, announced this week that it has appointed David Porter as the company’s new Chief Procurement Officer. Porter…
Advanced Sourcing and Procurement Technologies: Contract Search, Discovery, and Analytics
Ardent Partners’ recent research report, Sourcing and Procurement: The 2016-2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report, chronicles the evolution of sourcing and procurement technologies over the last two decades to where they are today and…
Advanced Sourcing and Procurement Technologies: Optimization-based Sourcing Tools
Ardent Partners’ recent research report, Sourcing and Procurement: The 2016-2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report, chronicles the evolution of sourcing and procurement technologies over the last two decades to where they are today and…
Advanced Sourcing and Procurement Technologies: “Moneyball for Procurement”
Publisher's Note: We should note that the concept of "Moneyball for Procurement" was introduced to the world by Jacob Larsen of Maersk at the CPO Rising 2016 Summit in Boston last…
CPO (Virtual) Roundtable: Make Spend Management a Business Imperative
Hear from "3 CPOs" in an amazing roundtable discussion on Wednesday, November 9 at 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET! Learn the strategies that three Best-in-Class CPOs used to transform their departments. CPO…
CPO News – October 28, 2016
Caroline Tissot Named Chief Group Procurement Officer at AccorHotels AccorHotels, a Paris, France-based multinational hotel group that operates hotels in 94 countries, announced that Caroline Tissot has been named Chief Group…
Webinar! Transforming Procurement through Agility, Collaboration, Technology, and Real-Time Data
If you're a Chief Procurement Officer or supply management leader, we must ask: what will your organization look like in three to five years? Do you know what steps you need to…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eProcurement
In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…
Dispatch from IBM Empower 2016
Ardent's analysts attend dozens of conferences each year. Typically our coverage of an event lags the event by days (and sometimes, unavoidably, by weeks), but our research objective/goal is not…
Innovation Continues to Drive the Evolution of Procurement Technology (Report Preview!)
Ardent Partners’ latest and greatest technology-focused research, Sourcing and Procurement: The 2016-2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report! Click here to download, has published and is now available to download. Click here to get your…