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Turn the Big Data “Crisis” into Big Data Opportunities — Join us at CPO Rising 2018!

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 5, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

Big Data for Procurement -- Crisis, or Opportunity? With the rise of business process automation tools, cloud-based applications, mobile solutions, connected devices (i.e., the “Internet of Things”), and Big Data…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 311: A Conversation with Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer of Ardent Partners

By Christopher Dwyer September 5, 2018Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Technology

Welcome to another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week, we (finally) sit down for a discussion with Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, to chat about…

Ardent Partners’ Autumn Events Round-Up

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team August 30, 2018Articles, Complex Categories, Events, Lists, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

As summer turns to fall, like so many leaves will do here in New England, we at Ardent Partners wanted to take a moment to round up and highlight some of…

NEW RESEARCH SURVEY: The State of Contingent Workforce Management

By Christopher Dwyer August 29, 2018Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Technology

From the procurement perspective, there is no more complex category of corporate spend than contingent labor. Once a simple indirect spend category that merely required some supplier optimization and eProcurement…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 310: Three Reasons Why Talent is the Gateway to the Future of Work

By Christopher Dwyer August 29, 2018Articles, Complex Categories, General

Another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast features a discussion of the three main reasons why “talent” (and the evolution of talent engagement) is the gateway to the…

Be a Part of the “Age of Intelligence” for Procurement – Join Us At The CPO Rising 2018 Summit

By Andrew Bartolini August 28, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Strategy, Technology

The Dawn of a New Age for Procurement As a procurement leader, you know better than most that businesses and consumers are now fully engulfed by technology and the data…

Payables Place First Thing: The Expected Trajectory of AP – Part I

By Phil Bartolini August 24, 2018Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology1 Comment

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the…

Six CPO Strategies for Navigating Through and Managing Change

By Andrew Bartolini & Christopher Dwyer August 23, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

The interesting angle to navigating change is how exactly Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and their teams react to it; in an age when “agility” has become a desired status for…

Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 309: A Future of Work “Grab Bag”

By Christopher Dwyer August 22, 2018Articles, Complex Categories, General, Technology

Welcome to another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week’s edition is a “grab bag” discussion of various Future of Work-related topics, including how and why artificial…

In Case You Missed It: Highlights from the CPO Rising 2017 Summit!

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team August 22, 2018Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, People, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

As we gear up to take the field for CPO Rising 2018 in less than three months, we can't help but reflect on what a success (and great fun) CPO…