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Where AI Belongs in a Procurement Decision — and Where It Does Not
August 26, 2026
Every AI deck shows you where AI goes. This one shows where it doesn't — and why that's the part that decides the outcome.
Posted in: Commentary
The Operating System Is the Right Architecture. Nobody Has Said Where Its Intelligence Comes From.
August 25, 2026
Everyone is arguing about what AI agents should be allowed to decide. Nobody is asking where their picture of reality came from.
Posted in: Commentary
The Accident Report Names a Cause. The Flight Recorder Lets You Sit in the Seat Before the Outcome Even Happened.
August 23, 2026
What is the difference between a case study and a case lab? The details.
Posted in: Commentary
The Hansen Case Labs: A New Course, By Invitation Only
August 22, 2026
Procurement Insights · Jon W. Hansen, FCIPS Most case teaching hands you a story with the ending already attached. Someone decided what went wrong, wrote it up, and you spend the session finding the clues that were pointed out to you. It feels like analysis. It is recall. Starting this autumn, I am running something […]
Posted in: Commentary
Thinking With the Machine: A Worked Record of Human–AI Collaborative Reasoning (FULL BOOK)
August 21, 2026
Perhaps the emerging (and primary) workforce skill isn't knowing how to get better answers from AI. It's knowing when the answer still needs to be questioned.
Posted in: Commentary
I Wrote a White Paper About SAP in 2008. I Have Just Read It for the First Time in Years.
August 18, 2026
What does an eighteen-year-old white paper tell us to look for in the 2026 AI era?
Posted in: Commentary
So Which Is It? Is CLM Dead, or Is It Being “Reborn” in the AI Era?
August 18, 2026
A contract is a record of what was agreed. It is not a record of how the work is actually done.
Posted in: Commentary
The AI Paradox: Do You and Your Organization Know the Difference Between AI Working Memory and AI Archive Memory?
August 16, 2026
The record is inside the enterprise. The reasoning has moved outside it. Which one is your agent governance program actually governing?
Posted in: Commentary
What Does Cloud Repatriation and AI Repatriation Have in Common, and How Are They Different?
August 16, 2026
That is not an argument against automation. It is an argument for knowing what you are automating before you automate it — the same argument as everything else in previous technology eras, arriving through a different door.
Posted in: Commentary
When Is the Right Time to Disturb Success?
August 26, 2026
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The moment an operation is most exposed to a wrong measure is the moment nobody is examining it — because the measure is producing good numbers.