Dinner, Drinks, and……. A Roundtable on Sourcing Success
Dinner, Drinks, and a Movie Roundtable on Sourcing Success – what could be better? One of the first reports that we published at Ardent Partners, Sourcing in the 2010’s: The…
Master Data Mastery – Strategies to Improve Procurement Performance
I've said it before: The world is becoming more and more data driven. The enterprise is also becoming more and more data driven – whether it is strategic planning or…
Webinar: Five New Year’s Resolutions for More Effective T&E Management
Over the years, my supply management research has, at times, taken a process focus or a technology focus or an industry focus or a regional focus or a role focus.…
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Tomorrow we celebrate CPO Rising’s one year anniversary. What an exciting year it was! First, thank you for making CPO Rising the fastest growing site in the…
The Future of Enterprise IT
September 24 - what a great day! At last week’s Emptoris Empower conference, noted technology author and consultant, Geoffrey Moore delivered a keynote presentation entitled “The Future of Enterprise IT…
Emptoris Empower – (1) Crossing the Chasm (2) BRIC (3) Geoffrey Moore
Last week, I attended Day One of the Emptoris Empower conference in Boston, the fifth time I have been able to attend at least part of this conference. What follows…
Ardent Partners – Open for Business (Summer Version)
July 14 is a day of revolution for one proud nation. As I write this article, I am in the town where many Patriots awoke 234 years ago, rode a…
BIG Trends
In business circles, supply management is the new black. Next week, I will be discussing some of the BIG Trends that I see shaping spend (or supply) management in the…
CPO Shop Talk from Ariba LIVE: (1) Clouds (2) P2P Enablement (3) WCO
The eSourcing 2.0 campaign is underway and over the next few months we’ll be taking the campaign to the streets. I’ve already been invited by several procurement leaders to speak…
Opportunity-to-Order: The Value of Contract Management
Buy-Sell, Sell-Buy. Tomorrow, and for perhaps the last time ever (not definitive), I will be presenting research that I performed for my last employer, Aberdeen Group. In a strange twist…