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Magnus Mondays — Zip Forward Europe 2025: Risk Orchestration in the Limelight

Magnus Mondays — Zip Forward Europe 2025: Risk Orchestration in the Limelight

Posted by By Magnus Bergfors April 7, 2025Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Technology
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending Zip’s inaugural European version of its user conference, Zip Forward. Held in London, the one-day event hosted more than 200 attendees from…
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Magnus Mondays — Agentic AI Has Entered the Chat

Magnus Mondays — Agentic AI Has Entered the Chat

Posted by By Magnus Bergfors March 24, 2025Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology
For the last couple of years, generative AI (GenAI) has been a staple in procurement solution provider marketing as the savior for overwhelmed procurement departments. But during the second half…
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Magnus Mondays — Ivalua Now EMEA 2025 — Realistic Innovations

Magnus Mondays — Ivalua Now EMEA 2025 — Realistic Innovations

Posted by By Magnus Bergfors March 17, 2025Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology
My 2025 conference season kicked off last week with Ivalua Now EMEA. The conference took place in central Paris at the Carrousel De Louvre, a larger venue than last year,…
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Magnus Mondays — Suites, Specialists, and IM&PPO

Magnus Mondays — Suites, Specialists, and IM&PPO

Posted by By Magnus Bergfors March 10, 2025Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology
About a year ago, I wrote a series of articles on the topic of suites vs. specialists (click here to read). In today’s article, I return to that topic and…
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Magnus Mondays — Do We Need a Sourcing Toolbox?

Magnus Mondays — Do We Need a Sourcing Toolbox?

Posted by By Magnus Bergfors March 3, 2025Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology
Recently, I’ve talked about the need to manage and source more spend— and source it more frequently. And last year, I wrote an article about innovations in sourcing and how…
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Magnus Mondays — Let’s Manage More Spend

Magnus Mondays — Let’s Manage More Spend

Posted by By Magnus Bergfors February 24, 2025Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology
At Ardent Partners, we have researched procurement metrics and performance for almost 20 years (Andrew Bartolini started tracking it before he founded Ardent). One of the key metrics we follow…
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Magnus Mondays — Build in Agility and Source More

Magnus Mondays — Build in Agility and Source More

Posted by By Magnus Bergfors February 17, 2025Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology
The fact we are living in times of uncertainty should not have escaped anyone at this point. It’s been pointed out continually by pundits, with most CPOs aware of it…
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Magnus Mondays — Don’t Over-Complicate Your CLM Implementation

Magnus Mondays — Don’t Over-Complicate Your CLM Implementation

Posted by By Magnus Bergfors February 10, 2025Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology
A while back I wrote an article about Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) that looked at the two major parts of these solutions and why it’s so important to set a…
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Magnus Mondays (Reprisal) — Make vs. Buy: Procurement Tech Edition

Magnus Mondays (Reprisal) — Make vs. Buy: Procurement Tech Edition

Posted by By Magnus Bergfors February 3, 2025Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology
[**Today, we're running a "best of" Magnus Mondays post, reprising a popular topic of the series. Magnus returns next week with new content for February.] In a recent article, I…
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Magnus Mondays — Charts, Ratings, Quadrants, and Classifications

Magnus Mondays — Charts, Ratings, Quadrants, and Classifications

Posted by By Magnus Bergfors January 27, 2025Posted inArticles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategy, Technology
So, apparently a popular (at least in some circles) figure in the procurement technology space retired last week. Dr. Elouise Epstein created the so-called spider chart back in 2017. I…
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