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Best of 2017: What’s Vital to Contingent Workforce Management Programs Today?
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2017 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. ... Read more
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Five Production and Delivery Capabilities to Consider in a Supplier
Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published a new sourcing-themed report, Beyond Price: Finding the Right Suppliers Using Sophisticated Sourcing Strategies. If you would like to access the report, it is available for... Read more
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Measuring Procurement Performance – Not So Easy After All
Editor’s Note: Join Ardent Partners’ analysts and 150 global procurement and supply chain leaders and practitioners for Ardent’s second-annual CPO Rising Procurement Executive Summit here in Boston on November 8... Read more
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Four Things that Signal a New Age of Work
The world of work is changing. Traditional concepts of how to engage, acquire, and address enterprise talent have been replaced by innovative, on-demand strategies to fill business’ skills-based needs. And,... Read more
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ISM 2017 Round-Up: Top Five Highlights from Orlando
Last week, Andrew Bartolini and I had the great pleasure of attending the Institute for Supply Management’s 102nd annual conference in sunny (and muggy) Orlando, Florida. The four-day event featured... Read more
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Three MORE Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility
It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that “it is an exciting time to work in procurement.” [Sidebar: speaking of webinars… We have an exclusive event... Read more
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Six Strategies to Expand Commercial Card Programs
Leading organizations know that in order to maintain market share and market relevance, they must find strong trading partners with shared or aligned interests and develop a coalition of willing... Read more
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What Will it Take to Get AP to the “Next Level” of Performance?
In the past, the role of the AP operation focused primarily on data entry and manual activities. But that is changing – today, there is a great opportunity for AP... Read more
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Contingent Workforce Weekly, Episode 136: Four Things Your CWM Program Needs to Do in 2017
This week’s new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast, sponsored by Shiftgig, is an interesting discussion of the four things every contingent workforce management (CWM) program should spearhead in... Read more
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Three Innovative Technologies Driving Procurement Agility – Part One
It has been stated often in Ardent Partners research and webinars that “it is an exciting time to work in procurement.” And this is no less true today than it... Read more