In October 2025, The Hackett Group released a now-widely cited report identifying six dimensions that determine whether digital transformation succeeds or fails. For many, this was breakthrough insight.
For those familiar with the Procurement Insights archives, it was déjà vu.
Hackett’s six dimensions — Strategy, Governance, Talent, Process, Data, and Technology — map directly onto the Hansen Fit Score’s five dimensions, codified in 2015 and rooted in research dating back to 1998.
Rather than competition, this is chronologically impossible: the HFS model predates Hackett’s framework by a decade or more.
This is not poaching.
This is independent validation of what has been documented across 27 years, 180+ transformations, and six technology eras:
Technology evolves.
Organizational dynamics don’t.
Hackett has published the diagnosis.
HFS built the predictive engine — complete with thresholds (≥72/100), quantified readiness scoring, transformation probability modeling, and meta-analysis drawn from two decades of real-world implementations.
Hackett describes what correlates with success.
HFS operationalizes it.
The result: Hackett’s 2025 report doesn’t threaten the Hansen Fit Score at all — it elevates it. The industry now openly confirms the exact readiness dimensions the HFS has measured for a decade and the Procurement Insights archives have chronicled for nearly three decades.
What was once “ahead of its time” is now simply “the standard.”
The market didn’t catch up by accident — it caught up because the principles behind the Hansen Fit Score are rooted in organizational physics, not technology cycles.
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HACKETT DIDN’T POACH MY FRAMEWORK — THEY VALIDATED IT
Posted on November 24, 2025
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In October 2025, The Hackett Group released a now-widely cited report identifying six dimensions that determine whether digital transformation succeeds or fails. For many, this was breakthrough insight.
For those familiar with the Procurement Insights archives, it was déjà vu.
Hackett’s six dimensions — Strategy, Governance, Talent, Process, Data, and Technology — map directly onto the Hansen Fit Score’s five dimensions, codified in 2015 and rooted in research dating back to 1998.
Rather than competition, this is chronologically impossible: the HFS model predates Hackett’s framework by a decade or more.
This is not poaching.
This is independent validation of what has been documented across 27 years, 180+ transformations, and six technology eras:
Technology evolves.
Organizational dynamics don’t.
Hackett has published the diagnosis.
HFS built the predictive engine — complete with thresholds (≥72/100), quantified readiness scoring, transformation probability modeling, and meta-analysis drawn from two decades of real-world implementations.
Hackett describes what correlates with success.
HFS operationalizes it.
The result: Hackett’s 2025 report doesn’t threaten the Hansen Fit Score at all — it elevates it. The industry now openly confirms the exact readiness dimensions the HFS has measured for a decade and the Procurement Insights archives have chronicled for nearly three decades.
What was once “ahead of its time” is now simply “the standard.”
The market didn’t catch up by accident — it caught up because the principles behind the Hansen Fit Score are rooted in organizational physics, not technology cycles.
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