The inaugural AP Honors Ceremony celebrated the accounts payable profession and recognized excellence in the field. During the ceremony, Ardent Partners presented awards for outstanding performance and execution in the last year — “The AP Honors” — to a variety of high achievers including Accounts Payable and P2P leaders and teams, as well as ePayables [...]
January 15, 2024
John Yuva
Best Practices, Process, Technology
Join Ardent Partners and Kofax on October 5th (11 AM ET) for a webcast on Digital AP Innovation: Transforming Your Accounts Payable Department for Success. The evolution of ePayables technologies, spanning more than two decades, has ushered in a new era of innovation. Today, high adoption rates and robust usage of ePayables solutions are pivotal [...]
September 27, 2023
John Yuva
Event, Process, Technology, Webinar
Publisher’s Note: I am very pleased to share with you Ardent Partners’ annual state of procurement research report, CPO Rising 2019. Those of you who have followed us over the years know that this report is a culmination of a year’s worth of research, conversations, and insights. And, it is available now by clicking here. In 2019, [...]
May 10, 2019
Andrew Bartolini
Research
Contact: Andrew Bartolini FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tel.: 617-752-1728 Email: info@ardentpartners.com Date: 04/26/2019 Ardent Partners Announces “CPO Rising 2019: #ValueExpansion” Report Publication Annual Procurement Benchmark Study Reports on the “State of” the Industry, Highlights the Challenges and Opportunities for Procurement to Achieve Next-Level Performance BOSTON — Ardent Partners, the premiere supply management research and advisory firm, is [...]
April 26, 2019
Philip Bartolini
News, Research
Two companies, a similar task, different corporate cultures, and diametrically opposite results. Over the past few weeks, we presented a case study on the specific experiences of two rival companies and their implementations of similar supply management technology suites. Specifically, we looked at the impact that the existing corporate culture had on the implementation and overall [...]
April 22, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Process, Technology
According to authors P. Montana and B. Charnov (in the 2008 edition of their book, Management) by way of Wikipedia, Corporate culture is defined as the “total sum of the values, customs, traditions, and meanings that make a company unique. Corporate culture is often called ‘the character of an organization,’ since it embodies the vision of the company’s founders. [...]
April 15, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Best Practices, Process, Technology
Continuing our look at corporate culture and its impact on technology adoption from last week, we now explore Company #2. In Part I of this article series, we introduced you to the highly-disciplined procurement department of a very large company (which we refer to as “Company #1”) with a top-down and authoritative management style and a [...]
April 8, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Process, Technology
In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” for AP, Finance and Procurement Professionals, and other readers of our web sites. As you can imagine, over this time, we have produced a wealth of content including subject matter expertise articles, white papers, presentations, eBooks, and much more. This week on Payables Place [...]
April 1, 2019
Ardent Partners Analyst Team
Process, Technology
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “best of” 2018 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. In 2018, the role of the AP function in most businesses is incredibly clear: tightly-manage day-to-day processes (primarily invoices and payments) while providing value to the [...]
January 16, 2019
Andrew Bartolini & Bob Cohen
Process, Research
[Editor’s Note: It’s “CPO Rising Week”, and the Ardent Partners research team is highlighting the great agenda and speakers from the CPO Rising 2018 Summit. If you were unable to join us at the Summit, have no fear, you can attend our complimentary webinar Voice of the CPO: Highlights from the CPO Rising 2018 Summit, [...]
November 5, 2018
Andrew Bartolini
Event