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The Next Generation of Procurement: The Millennials Have Shown Up to Work
[Editor’s Note: we’re publishing today’s article to coincide with ISM’s 100th annual conference that is currently being held in sunny Phoenix, Arizona. Andrew Bartolini and I are in attendance with... Read more
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Three More Lessons Learned from the Great Carnitas Shortage of 2015
Readers may recall that in mid-January, Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) had stopped serving its popular carnitas product at roughly a third of its 1,724 restaurants because it dropped one of... Read more
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Three Questions Every CWM Program Director Must Ask Themselves in 2015
Editor’s note: Interested in learning more about how the contingent workforce will continue to evolve in the year ahead? Make sure to join us on Tuesday, February 17 at 2pm for a... Read more
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Four Best-in-Class Ways to “Connect the Dots” and Improve Sourcing Results in 2015
Over the past couple of months, we have been featuring analysis from our recent report, The State of Strategic Sourcing 2014: Connecting the Dots, which is now out and available. Interested readers... Read more
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Three Events Management Metrics That Matter
The world of complex spend management can often frustrate the typical procurement executive, as each category that encompasses this area has its own distinct set of capabilities, competencies, solutions, and... Read more
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The Three Goals Every Travel / Expense Management Program Must Achieve
The world of business travel is evolving at a rapid clip, as more and more enterprises experience higher travel budgets, more complex processes within the expense management framework, and new,... Read more
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Three Tactical Expense Management Capabilities That Matter
Business travel and its related costs have risen over the past half-decade, with enterprises reinstating the travel budgets at levels that are higher than they were pre-economic downturn. Of course,... Read more
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Three Strategic Events Management Capabilities That Matter
The world of events management has certainly evolved over the past few years. Like its “sister” category of business travel, this category was often seen as a mere cost of... Read more
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Three Strategic CWM Capabilities That Matter
Within the framework of modern contingent workforce management, enterprises across the globe realize that the age of merely managing staffing suppliers as an alternative workforce is long dead and gone.... Read more
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Four Questions Every Company Should Ask About Their HR and Procurement Convergence
Convergence has been a hot topic around CPO Rising in 2014 (in fact, Ardent colleague and CPO Rising founder, Andrew Bartolini, focused his CPO-centric research report on this topic). Within... Read more