CPO Archives - Page 98 of 143 - CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

Webinar! Transforming Procurement through Agility, Collaboration, Technology, and Real-Time Data

By Andrew Bartolini October 24, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

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…

Next-Gen CWM Analytics: How User-Level Flexibility Leads to Agile Analytics

By Christopher Dwyer October 17, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Process, Strategy, Technology

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…

How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eProcurement

By Andrew Bartolini October 7, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

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 –…

Dispatch from IBM Empower 2016

By Andrew Bartolini October 6, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

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…

Innovation Continues to Drive the Evolution of Procurement Technology (Report Preview!)

By Andrew Bartolini October 4, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

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…

The Trends (and Benefits) of Cloud-Based Technology Adoption: CPOs Take Notice

By Andrew Bartolini October 3, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Strategy, Technology

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,…

Bridging the Procurement-HR Gap in Managing “Services Procurement”

By Christopher Dwyer September 30, 2016Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategy

"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…