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We’ve Seen This Before. And It Didn’t End Well.
May 3, 2026
What's in a title? Very little if it doesn't reflect how the real world operates.
Posted in: Commentary
From Idea to Discipline: The Validation Layer the AI Conversation Has Been Missing
May 2, 2026
Jon Hansen surfaced the validation layer the AI conversation has been missing. Bob Ferrari did not just engage with the framing — he recognized the three-layer architecture senior buyers must understand.
Posted in: Commentary
Reimagining The Familiar (and Outdated) Iceberg Graphic
May 1, 2026
The familiar iceberg graphic addresses 10% of the system. Here is the other 90%.
Posted in: Commentary
Bolt-Ons. App Sprawl. Replicated Lakehouses. Same Open IKEA Box.
May 1, 2026
Here’s evidence the industry has been solving the wrong problem—for 30 years.
Posted in: Commentary
SAP Didn’t Reduce Capability. It Widened the Outcome Gap.
April 30, 2026
SAP's Technology Capability is at its strongest in two decades. Its behavioral dimensions just collapsed. A Hansen Fit Score™ assessment of what the April 2026 API policy actually changed.
Posted in: Commentary
The Commoditization Curve: From Commodore To Coupa
April 30, 2026
Here is why the practitioner is now ahead of the ProcurTech market and in the driver's seat.
Posted in: Commentary
What Are ProcureTech Providers Actually Orchestrating?
April 30, 2026
Every ProcureTech vendor now claims to be an orchestrator. Most are coordinating decisions whose validity has never been established.
Posted in: Commentary
A practitioner built the perfect AI Agent, now what is the “BUT”?
April 29, 2026
She built an AI agent that hits every metric. That's exactly when the system around it starts to break.
Posted in: Commentary
Why the World Economic Forum Answered a 2007 Question in 2026
April 28, 2026
The WEF says governments are now economic super actors. The Procurement Insights archive has been documenting the variable that determines whether super-actor status produces capability or dysfunction since 2007.
Posted in: Commentary
Procurement Insights 
Google’s $750M Move Just Scaled the Architecture That Has Failed for 30 Years
May 4, 2026
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Google didn't make a mistake. It just operationalized one — at $750 million scale, with thirty years of receipts.