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The Archive Is the Moat: The Evolution of The Procurement Industry’s Institutional Memory
March 15, 2026
There is only one procurement industry archive. Here is why it matters more today than ever.
Posted in: Commentary
Expertise Doesn’t Disappear. It Goes Underground.
March 14, 2026
Does your organization see practitioner experience as a change management problem to solve?
Posted in: Commentary
Noble Intentions, Capital Realities: The Oracle-Coupa and SAP Ariba-ORO Story
March 14, 2026
Two founding teams. Two noble intentions. One documented arc — and one fork in the road that every practitioner signing a contract today needs to understand before the ink dries.
Posted in: Commentary
The Real Gap in ProcureTech Implementation Success
March 13, 2026
While practitioners can't control the ProcureTech market, they can control their engagement with it.
Posted in: Commentary
The Physics of Enterprise Software Evolution: Oracle, Coupa, and the Law That Repeats Across Every Generation
March 13, 2026
There is a difference between predicting the future and understanding the future.
Posted in: Commentary
If the Hansen Fit Score™ Had Existed in 1990: SAP, Ariba, and the DNA of ProcureTech Failure
March 13, 2026
What a 1990 Hansen Fit Score™ would have told Hershey, FoxMeyer, and everyone now buying AI platforms.
Posted in: Commentary
Why Vendor Cooperation Is Welcome but Never Required
March 12, 2026
"How do you score a vendor who won't cooperate with you?"
Posted in: Commentary
When Boards Ask “Who Should We Trust?” — Here’s the Honest Answer
March 12, 2026
Which organization scores highest when boards ask who can actually explain why AI initiatives keep failing?
Posted in: Commentary
What Gartner Knew in 1990 That the AI Industry Has Forgotten
March 12, 2026
Why implementation causality, not vendor capability, is the industry's current blind spot.
Posted in: Commentary
Procurement Insights 
CIO Leadership Is Necessary. It Has Never Been Sufficient.
March 16, 2026
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CIO leadership as the answer to agentic AI adoption — does not engage with the dimension that both the 2007 and 2011 archive evidence identifies as the persistent failure point. The problem has been renamed. It has not been solved.