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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... Read more
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Next-Gen CWM Analytics: How User-Level Flexibility Leads to Agile Analytics
The contract talent industry has experienced a strategic evolution over the past few years, one that has seen this complex category shift from an understated workforce alternative to viable corporate... Read more
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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 –... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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The Trends (and Benefits) of Cloud-Based Technology Adoption: CPOs Take Notice
As we discussed in our latest report, Cloud-based solutions are revolutionizing the way that enterprises conduct business. These web-based versions of common business tools, like analytics or document management tools,... Read more
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Bridging the Procurement-HR Gap in Managing “Services Procurement”
“You can’t really understand another person’s experience until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.” As procurement continues to gain traction within the enterprise and manage more spend, Chief Procurement Officers and their teams must become stronger... Read more
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Supply Chain Cyber Security: No Longer Someone Else’s Problem
On Day 1 of the Institute for Supply Management’s 101st annual conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, Timothy Hall, President of AZORCA Cyber Security, LLC, gave an eye-opening presentation on the cyber... Read more
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The Trends (and Benefits) of Solution Suite Adoption: CPOs Take Notice
Ardent Partners has been tracking the supply management solution provider market, as well as the strategies, processes, and behaviors of Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), their teams, and end users for... Read more
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Chris Shanahan: A Profile of a Transformation Procurement Leader – Part II
Like many procurement professionals, Chris Shanahan, who is the Senior Vice President of Global Procurement at Becton Dickinson (BD), a global medical technology provider, sort of “fell” into the space.... Read more