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Research Preview: The State of Strategic Sourcing – Spend Analysis

By Andrew Bartolini November 30, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

Ardent Partners is pleased to announce the publication of The State of Strategic Sourcing 2015: The Four Pillars of Sourcing Success report. Interested readers can download this exciting and informative annual research…

Six Strategies CPOs Can Use to Engage the CFO

By Andrew Bartolini November 17, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Strategy

Forces are combining to align procurement and finance. For example, the evolution and expansion of the Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") and Chief Procurement Officer ("CPO") roles have served to bring these…

Call for Speakers – CPO Rising 2016

By Andrew Bartolini November 12, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People1 Comment

Ardent Partners is looking for CPOs and other procurement executives from all industries and geographies to present on mainstage presentations, lead breakout sessions, and join executive panel discussions at CPO…

What Will Take CPOs and Procurement Organizations to the “Next Level?” Early Engagement

By Andrew Bartolini November 10, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy

Today, we're previewing the first report in a series of reports entitled CPO Game Changers - Volume 1: Early Engagement, sponsored by Zycus and available for download here (registration required). Within the past five…

Video Invitation to CPO Rising 2016 – The Procurement Event of 2016!

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team November 9, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People

To register or learn more about the event, click here!

How to Transform Procurement in Five Steps – Step Two: Processes

By Andrew Bartolini November 2, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Strategy, Technology

Procurement transformation has become a familiar topic here on CPO Rising, particularly over the past couple of years when it has become increasingly clear that what got procurement departments where…

Ardent Partners Announces CPO Rising 2016 Event – March 29 & 30 (Boston, MA)

By Andrew Bartolini & Christopher Dwyer November 2, 2015Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing

We are extremely pleased to announce that next March, a select group of Chief Procurement Officers and other business leaders will come together at the Harvard Club in Boston for…

How to Transform Procurement in Five Steps – Step One: People

By Andrew Bartolini October 28, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, People, Strategy

How to Transform Procurement in Five Steps – an Introduction

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team October 21, 2015Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Lists, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

As a researcher, one of the challenges to studying a phenomenon (also known as a dependent variable) is to forego assigning causation to a single independent variable without considering other…