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Business or Pleasure: How Social Networking Will Reshape Supply Management?

By Andrew Bartolini November 16, 2011Articles, General, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

There has been a paradigm shift in the way people communicate and interact and, social networks are at the core of this shift. The underlying capabilities and drivers behind the…

Getting over the Adoption Hump: Spend Analysis

By Andrew Bartolini October 26, 2011Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

Today's Adoption Series entry follows our last article which looked at the concept of a “learning curve” and argued that until users find the new process to be more efficient…

Adoption Series – Getting Over the Hump

By Andrew Bartolini October 12, 2011Articles, General, Technology2 Comments

I guess today (Wednesday) is “Hump Day” – It’s not a term I’ve ever incorporated into my everyday conversations. To be honest, I actually try to avoid using it because…

An ePayables Business Case Made Easy

By Andrew Bartolini October 11, 2011Articles, Procure-to-Pay, Technology2 Comments

As we mentioned in an article last week, Ardent Partners is initiating its technology coverage with the launch of the its first SMARTSet™. A SMARTSet is a low-cost, comprehensive set…

Technology Adoption – An Expert’s View: Iasta (2)

By Andrew Bartolini October 10, 2011Articles, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

As part of our ongoing Technology Adoption series, we thought it would be helpful to capture and share the perspectives from a few industry leaders who face the challenge of…

Technology Adoption – An Expert’s View: Iasta (1)

By Andrew Bartolini October 7, 2011Articles, General, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

As part of our ongoing Technology Adoption series, we thought it would be helpful to capture and share the perspectives from a few industry leaders who face the challenge of…

Introducing The ePayables SMARTSet

By Andrew Bartolini October 6, 2011Articles, Procure-to-Pay, TechnologyNo Comments

We often highlight the thought-leadership reports and presentations that Ardent Partners publishes/presents on the pages of CPO Rising as a way to share some of our key research findings and…

Six Major Trends for AP in 2012

By Andrew Bartolini October 5, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology18 Comments

While I have personally have spent a good deal of my time over the past six years focusing on the accounts payable market, at Ardent Partners, we have another analyst…

Analyst Q&A – 2012 Outlook (2)

By Andrew Bartolini September 26, 2011Articles, General, StrategyNo Comments

Today, we continue with the second part of the content from my recent media interview that focused on the current business cycle and where we are headed in 2012. Part…

Final Thoughts on Corporate Culture and Technology Adoption

By Andrew Bartolini September 16, 2011Articles, General, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

As part of our ongoing Adoption Series, over the past few articles, we have presented a case study on the specific experiences of two rival companies and their implementations of…