Procurement didn’t start the fire, Gartner did?

Posted on September 12, 2024

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Ryan Backman Senior Account Executive @ Gartner | Problem Solver | Quote EnthusiastSenior Account Executive

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Ryan Backman, what you are talking about is the equivalent of a security guard starting a fire and then calling the fire department!

There is a lack of cohesive integration because Gartner has fuelled the flames of GenAI adoption urgency, resulting in the continued practice of leading with a technology equation-based implementation model, specifically a technology-process-people or process-technology-people framework.

For example, The Gartner Hype Cycle for Procurement and Sourcing Solutions – https://bit.ly/3XCLKRX

Or, as Subash Chandar pointed out in his comment on the David Shillingford post, the quote by Gartner’s Kaitlynn Sommers about “The window for building competitive advantage through early adoption of GenAI in procurement is narrowing.”

With what you are now saying about failed initiatives resulting from incohesive ethical governance frameworks, you are admitting that practitioners were not ready for the technology you were hyping.

Conversely, they would have been ready if an agent-based people-process-technology implementation model were utilized without the FUD you created.

Here are two examples:

Virginia eVA – https://bit.ly/3SUWxml
DND – https://bit.ly/3FBnFRr

Michael Lamoureux David Loseby Rob Handfield

How Useful Is The Gartner Hype Cycle for Procurement and Sourcing SolutionsI have only one question left to ask? If Gartner was your barber, would you keep going back to

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