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Four Best-in-Class Ways to “Connect the Dots” and Improve Sourcing Results in 2015

By Andrew Bartolini January 7, 2015Articles, Lists, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

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…

Three Events Management Metrics That Matter

By Christopher Dwyer December 15, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Lists, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

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…

The Three Goals Every Travel / Expense Management Program Must Achieve

By Christopher Dwyer November 10, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, General, Lists, Process, Solution Providers

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,…

Three Tactical Expense Management Capabilities That Matter

By Christopher Dwyer November 3, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Lists, Process, Technology

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,…

Three Strategic Events Management Capabilities That Matter

By Christopher Dwyer October 24, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Lists, People, Process, Strategy

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…

Three Strategic CWM Capabilities That Matter

By Christopher Dwyer October 16, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Lists, People, Process, Strategy

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.…

Four Questions Every Company Should Ask About Their HR and Procurement Convergence

By Christopher Dwyer October 13, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Lists, People, Process, Strategy

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…

Three Travel / Expense Management Metrics That Matter

By Christopher Dwyer October 6, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Lists, Process, Strategy, Technology

It’s been previously stated here at CPO Rising that the business travel category has been on both a budgetary and strategic rise over the past half-decade; as more and more…

The Four Pillars of the Modern Strategic Sourcing Program

By Andrew Bartolini September 26, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Lists, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

We’re gearing up to launch our annual benchmark study on the state of strategic sourcing and the excitement is..... palpable. The topic is so rich and exciting that throughout the…

More eSourcing Myths – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini September 12, 2014Articles, General, Lists

Editor’s Note: We continue our look back at articles from our first year by exposing five more commonly-held eSourcing myths (or what are also commonly-used excuses to bypass eSourcing). eSourcing…