What is the “SOA Hangover?”
My posts and related discussion streams do not aim to achieve consensus. When we all gain new insights, it creates a much-needed perspective and checks and balances to avoid tunnel vision. In essence, it simplifies and zeros in on the core objective – for procurement, that means addressing the high generational failure rate of ProcureTech initiatives.
Here are my thoughts – going as far back as Covisint and even earlier (you can access some of the case studies and commentary through my archives – https://bit.ly/4bGbySB):
✔️ There has been a great deal of buzz regarding the ORO Labs‘ purchase of ProcureTech, An ORO Labs Company.
✔️ There has also been much hype around Agentic AI, AI steps, AI stacks, and AI sandwiches as the turning point for ProcureTech’s initiative success.
✔️ There have been solution maps listing countless—make that innumerable—solution provider logos microscopically placed in different categories.
✔️ Many debates have occurred about what seamless integration means and entails, like the one referenced in today’s Procurement Insights post below.
I don’t care that ORO bought ProcureTech 100 or that ZIP is worth so many billions. The above and everything like it is just chatter. From the Mendocino Project to the Myers Drugstore Chain to the VHA’s Bay Pines debacle, it is just noise in the absence of realizing one critical truth: over the past four decades, the ProcureTech and overall high-tech initiative failure rates have been as high as 80 percent.
From the early ERP days to the new Agentic AI era, the only constant has been that most initiatives fail. I had to create an archive for the original archive of failed initiatives.
If ORO Labs, Agentic AI, or technology and solution maps can address this one “elephant in the room” problem of failed initiatives, that is all that matters. If they can’t, let’s stop wasting our time talking about them and focus on what can fix the problem elephant.
One final thought – initiative failures are not a technology problem!
Here is the link to the article referenced in the first sentence of today’s post: Today’s Intake/Orchestration And The SOA Hangover
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Who Cares, There Is An Elephant In The Room!
Posted on March 20, 2025
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What is the “SOA Hangover?”
My posts and related discussion streams do not aim to achieve consensus. When we all gain new insights, it creates a much-needed perspective and checks and balances to avoid tunnel vision. In essence, it simplifies and zeros in on the core objective – for procurement, that means addressing the high generational failure rate of ProcureTech initiatives.
Here are my thoughts – going as far back as Covisint and even earlier (you can access some of the case studies and commentary through my archives – https://bit.ly/4bGbySB):
✔️ There has been a great deal of buzz regarding the ORO Labs‘ purchase of ProcureTech, An ORO Labs Company.
✔️ There has also been much hype around Agentic AI, AI steps, AI stacks, and AI sandwiches as the turning point for ProcureTech’s initiative success.
✔️ There have been solution maps listing countless—make that innumerable—solution provider logos microscopically placed in different categories.
✔️ Many debates have occurred about what seamless integration means and entails, like the one referenced in today’s Procurement Insights post below.
I don’t care that ORO bought ProcureTech 100 or that ZIP is worth so many billions. The above and everything like it is just chatter. From the Mendocino Project to the Myers Drugstore Chain to the VHA’s Bay Pines debacle, it is just noise in the absence of realizing one critical truth: over the past four decades, the ProcureTech and overall high-tech initiative failure rates have been as high as 80 percent.
From the early ERP days to the new Agentic AI era, the only constant has been that most initiatives fail. I had to create an archive for the original archive of failed initiatives.
If ORO Labs, Agentic AI, or technology and solution maps can address this one “elephant in the room” problem of failed initiatives, that is all that matters. If they can’t, let’s stop wasting our time talking about them and focus on what can fix the problem elephant.
One final thought – initiative failures are not a technology problem!
Here is the link to the article referenced in the first sentence of today’s post: Today’s Intake/Orchestration And The SOA Hangover
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