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Don’t Overlook Contract Talent Onboarding (and Offboarding)
[Publisher’s note: Ardent’s Research Director, Christopher J. Dwyer is here to talk about an issue that plagues even the best managers of Contingent Workforce Management programs across the world: onboarding... Read more
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Mobility and Complex Spend Management (Part II)
The first article in this two-part series highlighted the growing rise of mobile applications and solutions within the greater framework of complex spend management. Earlier, we discussed how mobile apps... Read more
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A Collaborative Approach to Event Management
Business travel and corporate meetings/events are two of the largest expenditures for the average enterprise, and while procurement organizations often find the good ways to reduce costs within these two... Read more
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The Perfect Storm of Non-Traditional Talent
“Talent” is a word that reflects a wide range of priorities within the modern business world. Some enterprises consider talent to be the most crucial aspect of their greater organization,... Read more
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Contingent Labor: To Use…or Not to Use?
Contingent Labor: To Use…or Not to Use? That is the question…. Frequent readers of CPO Rising will have noticed a common theme running throughout my articles focused on contingent workforce... Read more
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How Are We Doing? Five Questions to Evaluate Your CWM Program
CPO Rising often presents content that addresses a wide variety of supply management concerns beyond the “core” or more traditional areas. As Chief Procurement Officers place more spend under management,... Read more
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Mobility and Complex Category Management (Part I)
In the procurement and supply management world, buzzwords come-and-go every year. Some of these fresh happenings represent a true change in the business world, while others fizzle out as their... Read more
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Best-in-Class Supplier Management, Part II
Our “Summer of Sourcing” is picking up steam, we hope you’re enjoying it. The research today is based upon our analysis performed for the State of Strategic Sourcing 2013 report... Read more
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The Future of Contingent Workforce Management: Where Can We Go?
This article is a teaser of an upcoming webcast by Ardent Partners analyst and director, Christopher J. Dwyer. Join him as part of HR.com’s Contract Talent and Workforce Exchange virtual... Read more
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Digging into the Data: Big Data and Contingent Workforce Management
In all of my years as an industry analyst, the last few have been especially exciting mainly due to the average organization’s willingness to adopt business intelligence, reporting and analytics... Read more