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Alicia Ralston: Sowing the Seeds of Collaboration at Archer Daniels Midland
This year we have been working to deliver a “CPO Rising Virtual Roundtable” series, sponsored by IBM. Each of the roundtables brings together three or four leading Chief Procurement Officers... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – October 14, 2014
BravoSolution Appoints Jim Wetekamp as its next CEO By Andrew Bartolini Last week, BravoSolution, a supply management solution provider, announced that its current SVP of Solution Strategy and industry veteran,... 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
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An Agent of Change: Dr. Nick Nayak’s Impact at the Department of Homeland Security
This year we have been working to deliver a “CPO Rising Virtual Roundtable” series, sponsored by IBM. Each of the roundtables brings together three or four leading Chief Procurement Officers... Read more
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Procurement Influencer Series: Subhash Makhija of GEP on the Industry’s Future
When Dr. Subhash Makhija co-founded GEP in 1999, along with Neha Desai Shah, Jagadish Turimella, and Roopa Gandhi, their initial vision was to use technology to streamline procurement processes. Makhija... Read more
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Research Preview: The State of Strategic Sourcing in 2014
In the next few weeks, the analyst team at Ardent Partners will publish our annual State of Strategic Sourcing benchmark study. This study builds on last year’s research on the... Read more
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DHS Procurement: Securing the Homeland, One Purchase at a Time
This year we have been working to deliver a “CPO Rising Virtual Roundtable” series, sponsored by IBM. Each of the roundtables brings together three or four leading Chief Procurement Officers... Read more
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The Four Pillars of the Modern Strategic Sourcing Program
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... Read more
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The New State is Here: The Evolution of Contingent Workforce Management
Back in mid-August, the CPO Rising and Ardent Partners teams asked for the world’s participation in our second annual State of Contingent Workforce Management research survey. On the heels of... Read more
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Dr. Nick Nayak – A Profile of a Public-Sector Chief Procurement Officer
This year we have been working to deliver a “CPO Rising Virtual Roundtable” series, sponsored by IBM. Each of the roundtables brings together three or four leading Chief Procurement Officers... Read more