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How Will the “Gig Economy” Impact Procurement in 2017?
The procurement function has experienced first-hand business evolution across a variety of attributes, from technology and innovation to the emergence of data-driven strategies. Today’s procurement professionals have the opportunity to... Read more
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Genpact: A Procurement BPO Provider Swims Upstream
Genpact (Ticker: G), the business process outsourcing (“BPO”) firm, has a long history as a procurement outsourcing provider. Today’s article highlights my recent conversation with Jonathan Kirby, the SVP and Practice... Read more
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Technology Round-Up – August 25, 2016
Determine Announces Financial Results for Q1 2017 On August 10, Determine, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTRM), the Indiana-based provider of contract management and source-to-settle solutions for the cloud, announced financial results for the first quarter of Fiscal... Read more
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Exostar: Enhancing Security for Source-to-Settle Solutions
The Ardent Partners analyst team recently sat down with Tim Zullo, Senior Director, Sales & Marketing, and Mark Hogan, Product Manager, of Exostar, a provider of secure, cloud-based solutions for heavily-regulated industries. The two executives... Read more
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Announcing the Fourth Annual “State of Contingent Workforce Management” Research Study
For more than a decade, Ardent’s analyst team has tracked the progression and evolution of the contingent workforce, from its significance as a complex spend category to the burgeoning business force... Read more
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Going Swifter, Higher, Stronger in 2016
The Rio 2016 Olympics are still going full throttle through this Sunday and I’ve been doing my best to watch as much as I can (how about those American swimmers from... Read more
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CPO Rising 2016: How the Best-in-Class Manage Supplier Performance for Superior Gains
Editor’s Note: For the past few weeks, we have been featuring a series of articles based in large part on Ardent Partners’ flagship research report, CPO Rising 2016: The Art and... Read more
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The Real Impact of the Non-Employee Workforce and the Gig Economy
Editor’s Note: Catch up on the latest technology trends in the contingent workforce management space: download Ardent’s Contingent Workforce Management: 2016 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report by clicking here. Innovation... Read more
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Throwback Thursday: Procurement Fraud Prevention – The Expert (Part 2)
Editor’s Note: In the spirit of “Throwback Thursday,” we’re bringing our audience this gem from all the way back to late summer 2010, Ardent’s first summer. It’s been some time... Read more
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Webinar! Procurement 2020: A Strategy Checklist for the Decade Ahead
Editor’s Note: Are you free next Thursday, August 18 at 2 PM EST? Join Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer, and Matthew York, Research Analyst, of Ardent Partners for a free webinar on... Read more