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The State of ePayables 2019: Converting Data into Value in Accounts Payable
[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on... Read more
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Throwback Thursday: Compliance is Good
Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and... Read more
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Spring Cleaning 2016
Speaking of great memories, here’s one from the files that we share biennially…. Although it snowed a few inches on Monday in Boston, spring is officially upon us so, now... Read more
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CPO News – US Court Strikes Down Conflict Minerals Provision, Upholds Others
On Monday, April 14, a U.S. Appellate Court struck down key provisions of the landmark 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requiring many American companies to declare... Read more
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Rites of Spring (2014): Procurement’s “Annual Cleaning”
Although it’s still a little chilly in our neck of the wood (Boston), spring is officially upon us so, now is the time to move those sweaters to the bottom... Read more
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Compliance is Good
On the heels of a long week and a long weekend, I’ll keep this final article on compliance short and to the point (click to read the two preceding articles,... Read more
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Showdown at the Compliance Corral
Ardent Partners’ Report, CPO Rising 2011: Innovative Ideas for the Decade Ahead, showed that the average compliance rate in the market today is 62.9%. Not exactly great but it is... Read more
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Support Your Local Maverick?
A maverick is defined as “a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates. Synonyms: nonconformist, individualist;... Read more