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Best of 2016: Ardent Partners Welcomes Jacob Larsen of Maersk Group to CPO Rising 2016!
Editor’s Note: This week on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2016 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. We also have... Read more
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Scanmarket: Continued Growth and an Eye on a Source-to-Settle Future
The analyst team at Ardent Partners recently sat down with Ole Nielsen, Founder and Chairman of Scanmarket A/S, a European-based provider of strategic sourcing solutions that was founded in 1999.... Read more
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CPO Rising 2016: How the Best-in-Class Leverage eSourcing for Superior Performance
Editor’s Note: Today and for the next few weeks, we will feature a series of articles based in large part on Ardent Partners’ flagship research report, CPO Rising 2016: The Art... Read more
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How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eSourcing
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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eSourcing: Five Lessons Learned from Gregg Brandyberry
Today on CPO Rising, we highlight the long and illustrious career of Gregg Brandyberry, President of Rapid Deployment Procurement Excellence, Inc., and one of three members of the CPO Rising Hall of Fame Charter Class of... Read more
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Gregg Brandyberry: Profile of a CPO Rising Hall-of-Famer
Today on CPO Rising, we highlight the long and illustrious career of Gregg Brandyberry, President of Rapid Deployment Procurement Excellence, Inc., and one of three members of the CPO Rising Hall... 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 Rising 2016 Summit: Sourcing, Supply Risk, and Contract Management
The modern procurement executive must focus on a number of functional areas in order to remain competitive in today’s business world. This includes tasks like managing supplier relationships, sourcing the... Read more
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CPO Rising 2016 Summit: Showcasing the Value of Sourcing Across All Categories
Developing and maintaining an effective sourcing program is one of many game-changers that Ardent Partners has espoused for procurement teams over the last several years. Running a sourcing program that... Read more
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How New or Improved Technologies Can Transform Procurement – Spend Analysis and eSourcing
As Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and procurement practitioners move into 2016, they have the need and the capability for advanced technology solutions to automate and link the source-to-settle process –... Read more