Magnus Mondays — Conferences, Innovations, and Sore Feet
This time of the year is always full of conferences and last week was certainly a whirlwind! Early Tuesday morning I flew down to Amsterdam for Keelvar Konnect and on…
Magnus Mondays (Reprisal) — Category Management: All Talk No Action?
[**Over the next few weeks, we'll be running "best of" Magnus Mondays posts, reprising some of the most popular topics of the series. Magnus returns with new content in August.]…
Magnus Mondays — What About That Spend Visibility?
Last week OpenAI released its new flagship model GPT-4o (o is for omni, as in working across audio, visuals, and text at the same time). GenAI news and hype is…
CPO Rising Listicle: Battle Inflation with Five Smart Strategies
Fridays (in 2024) means that it’s time for another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement…
Accenture Grows Procurement Services Through Acquisitions
CPO Rising’s Technology Round-Up series continues this week with a focus on Accenture's latest acquisitions and its growth strategy for Procurement Services. If you are a sourcing, procurement, or spend management…
Magnus Mondays — GenAI Is Cool, but Should Everything be Automated?
If you haven’t heard about generative AI (GenAI), or even been pitched some type of it, then you’ve been hiding under a stone. There are dozens of articles describing GenAI,…
Magnus Mondays — Why Is There No “Mega Vendor” in the Procurement Space?
During my years as an analyst, I’ve heard “We want to be the Salesforce of procurement” many times. Yet, procurement is one of the few spaces that lacks truly dominant…
Magnus Mondays — Category Management: All Talk No Action?
When I started in procurement in what feels like way too many years ago, it was as a buyer. A few years later I got a new title, strategic buyer!…
Magnus Mondays: What’s in Store for 2024
As we close in on the end of the year and I settle in at Ardent Partners, I wanted to take a moment to look toward 2024. Rather than an…
CPO Rising Listicle: Unlock More Value with Five Category Management Benefits
Fridays (in 2023) means that it’s time for another CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement…