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The SMB’s Guide to Contingent Workforce Management, Part II: The Action Items

By Christopher Dwyer August 29, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, Lists, People, Process, Strategy

CPO Rising has been a central source of contingent workforce management (CWM) knowledge and thought leadership for well over a year, and, in that time, we’ve written about a vast…

The SMB’s Guide to Contingent Workforce Management, Part I: The Groundwork

By Christopher Dwyer August 27, 2014Articles, Complex Categories, People, Process, Strategy

CPO Rising has been a central source of contingent workforce management (CWM) knowledge and thought leadership for well over a year, and, in that time, we’ve written about a vast…

Ardent Partners Publishes Annual ePayments Rising Report

By Andrew Bartolini August 20, 2014Articles, Process, Strategy, Technology

Ardent Partners will soon publish "ePayments Rising: The 2014 Market Report." This independent research report seeks to present a comprehensive, industry-wide view into what is happening in the world of…

The Compliance Management Checklist: Some Final Thoughts

By Christopher Dwyer August 15, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Process, Strategy

By now, you may have read all or a few articles of our five-part “Compliance Management Checklist” series here at CPO Rising (if you missed any, click here to check…

A Proposed New Definition for “Spend under Management”

By Andrew Bartolini August 13, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy1 Comment

[A note from the editor: Last week, Andrew posed the question - How Do You Define Spend Under Management? - and invited others to offer up their answers because we…

The Compliance Management Checklist, Part V: Amendment Best Practices

By Christopher Dwyer August 11, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Process, Strategy

Welcome to the final article in a five-part series that will focus on how procurement, finance, and other professionals effectively build a “compliance management” checklist that addresses multiple avenues of…

How Do You Define Spend Under Management?

By Andrew Bartolini August 6, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategy

Before starting today’s article, I’d like to welcome all readers to join the Ardent Partners Supply Management Research Group on LinkedIn by clicking here. Joining this group is one new…

GEP: Differentiating Itself with a Broad (& Strong) Portfolio (I)

By Andrew Bartolini August 1, 2014Articles, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

In the course of our work for and discussions with large procurement departments this year, GEP's name is coming up much more frequently than just a few years ago. Impressively,…

CPO Rising 2014: Convergence – Top Challenges in 2014 (III)

By Andrew Bartolini July 18, 2014Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Strategy

Ardent Partners recently published our annual CPO Rising report (entitled CPO Rising 2014: Convergence) and of all the reports we publish this year, the focus of this report is exactly geared towards our…

Data Driven

By Andrew Bartolini July 10, 2014Articles, General, Strategy

The world is becoming more and more data driven. As you surf the web today, many of the sites that you visit will utilize ad serving technology that will determine,…