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I'm sure you've seen the headlines. A decade removed from the last recession, we're past due for another economic downturn. Fear not. While recessions certainly present challenges and obstacles, they also present opportunities for effective organizations to set themselves apart and gain new competitive advantages. When the next recession hits, [...]

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This guest blog comes to us from Matthew Clyne of VendorPanel. Procurement professionals will need to channel their inner Dr. Frankenstein to create the tools and systems of the future. Discover why focusing on what makes us uniquely human is vital for long-term career planning. Technology has always been an enabler [...]

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Blockchain platforms and applications can be used to expand market opportunities for small- and mid-sized manufacturing companies, which provide the vast majority of parts and components to large manufacturers and are “the heartbeat of the industry.” I recently interviewed Jeremy Goodwin, founding CEO of SyncFab for a follow-up discussion on [...]

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People aren't good at picking out jobs. Even with a record number of positions to choose from, more American workers feel disengaged and discouraged than engaged and enthused - many more. Why is finding the right fit so challenging? Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, an organizational psychologist, has identified several reasons in a new blog [...]

Publisher's Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and events. To commemorate the occasion, we are going to reflect on the firm's first decade by [...]

… but it's checklist for staying center stage is still valid 10 years later. Ten Year's ago SI published the below, and every word of it stands today. (Of course today you have to do even more, but you still have to do the below.) The CPO Agenda's Procurement Checklist for [...]

Dave Brittain, senior manager at Amazon Business, gives his top tips for convincing management it's time to get digital when it comes to purchasing [...]

You can confirm that paying your supplier late is actually the right thing to do in the situation at hand. There's a reason that SI has been saying since day one that you should never pay a supplier late, and stands by that as a general rule, but every rule has [...]

It is about time we stopped talking about equality for women in business, and start doing something about it. “It is the people within an organization who are responsible for digital success. To realize that success, we need more women to get in the game in multiple roles, starting with equal [...]

Procurement must take a new approach to recruitment to attract new talent [...]

I´ve being writing for a while about the future of procurement. Some 10 years ago you might hear about strategic sourcing and separating the negotiation and the purchasing or operational due diligence. Then we moved to an even more strategic procurement that sits along the business and add value instead [...]

Everyone talks about how digital will transform supply chains, but studies show that the gap between believing and achieving remains wide. Wanting to understand why the vast majority of organizations are in a holding pattern regarding the launch of a digital strategy, I sought out the advice from some of [...]

kraft-heinz-disaster-cost-cutting: Cost Cutting Strategy gone wrong I´m going to leave this article here just to take a note on this strategy, which is not procurement or strategic sourcing but just plain cost cutting. The results are eminent and “A Harvard Business School article in 2016 warned that the technique is [...]

The Twin Arenas of Procurement Excellence The procurement profession has long striven for excellence to increase its role and stature within the organization. Herein, we provide insight into ‘The Twin Arenas of Procurement Excellence. Our framework to achieve leadership in procurement and supply management. Procurement Excellence – Does excellence matter? Excellence is no [...]

Planning Your Procurement University or Academy Planning Your Procurement University or Academy? We offer guidance around three critical pillars for sustaining a Procurement University as a viable part of your business. 1. Strategy Setting The process of setting a strategy helps you to remain true to your values and on-track to achieve your [...]

Some common themes from ISM and Procurement Leaders. Last week I had the pleasure of sitting in on some great presentations at the Procurement Leaders World Procurement Congress 18 in London, as well as attending the Institute for Supply Management ISM2018 in Nashville, TN the week before. They provided the [...]

Instead of “recycle, reuse, retread” let's talk about a reboot. Memorization is a frontage road: It runs parallel to the best parts of learning, never intersecting. It's a detour around all the action, a way of knowing without learning, of answering without understanding.” — Ben Orlin, “When Memorization Gets in [...]

Data and intelligence holds the key to procurement moving from the past to the real time and beyond There is no doubting the fact that technology is evolving at an ever faster rate, meaning that the possibilities to analyse and understand business performance is also increasing and is opening up all [...]