Ardent Partners Analyst Team, Author at Payables Place

Creating a Framework to Address E-Invoicing in the U.S. – A Conversation with Todd Albers of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team May 8, 2019Best Practices, Event

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Todd Albers, Senior Payments Consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis about creating a framework to address E-Invoicing in the United…

Four Supplier Management Best Practices

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team May 6, 2019Best Practices

Business pressures and needs have changed over the past five years such that product lifecycles are shorter and market swings are wider than ever before. The pace of business has…

Designing, Pitching & Executing Elegant eInvoicing Strategy – Lessons Learned Firsthand

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 24, 2019Best Practices, Event

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Chauncey St. John, Senior Customs Operations Manager and former Global Process Leader Healthcare, Source-to-Pay, GE Global Operations USA, about designing, pitching, and…

Final Thoughts on Corporate Culture and Technology Adoption

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 22, 2019Best Practices, Process, Technology

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…

The Future of eInvoicing, eFactoring, and Blockchain in Africa

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 19, 2019Best Practices, Process, Solutions

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Mario Fernández, CEO at Gosocket about the ‘Kenyan Project’ in Africa. Mario will be giving a session on this topic on May…

Corporate Culture and its Impact on Technology Adoption – Results

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 15, 2019Best 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…

E-Invoicing in LATAM – Lessons Learned – A Discussion with Iris Martinez of Pearson

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 10, 2019Event, Solutions, Technology

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Iris Martinez, Delivery of Services and Technology Director for Latin America, based in Mexico, for Pearson, about her experiences and lessons learned from…

Corporate Culture and its Impact on Technology Adoption – Part II

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 8, 2019Process, 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…

Ardent Partners FinTech Influencer Series: Chen Amit, Co-Founder and CEO of Tipalti

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 3, 2019Solutions, Technology

Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and…

Corporate Culture and its Impact on Technology Adoption – Part I

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 1, 2019Process, 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…