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You Only Pay Twice If You Never Kept the Receipts
July 17, 2026
Nadella, Rousseau and Cotelli all say your AI edge is your knowledge. True — but you only pay for intelligence twice if you never kept your own receipts.
Posted in: Commentary
The Enterprise AI Divide: Personal AI Is Becoming the New Shadow Spreadsheet
July 16, 2026
"Why Phase 0™ is integral to AI implementation and governance success"
Posted in: Commentary
AI Made the Analysis Free. It Made the Judgment Scarce.
July 15, 2026
"If AI killed consulting, why did the AI companies just hire the consultants? Because adoption was never a software problem — and the receipts go back to 1998."
Posted in: Commentary
AI Governance Is No Longer About AI. It Is Becoming the Foundation of Organizational Governance.
July 14, 2026
"Which AI model is best?" was always the wrong question. So is "how do we govern AI?" The real question of the agentic era: is your AI governance independent enough to keep the organization's governance honest?
Posted in: Commentary
Gartner Makes Predictions. The Record Keeps Receipts.
July 11, 2026
A prediction describes a future no one is accountable for. A record documents what happened — and can be checked. Gartner's five 2026 predictions, against nineteen years of receipts.
Posted in: Commentary
AI Agents Are Being Deployed Across Sixteen Domains. Procurement Isn’t One of Them.
July 10, 2026
"Agents go first where the machine can check the machine. Procurement is where a human still has to be involved."
Posted in: Commentary
The CIPS Pulse Survey Found Five Risks. They’re Five Strands of One Pattern.
July 9, 2026
"The sources of disruption keep changing, the pattern doesn't"
Posted in: Commentary
1,800 Hours With AI, and the One Thing That Never Changed
July 8, 2026
The more capable the AI became, the more the outcome depended on the human — not less.
Posted in: Commentary
Before You Build the Twin, Validate the Original
July 8, 2026
"Before you build the digital twin, how do you know you're twinning the right organization?"
Posted in: Commentary
AI Sprawl Is the Fever, Not the Disease
July 18, 2026
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"Gartner just named "AI sprawl" a top 2026 priority. We've seen this fever before — and the treatment on offer is the one that failed last time."