By Jon Hansen | Procurement Insights | January 2026
Something interesting is happening.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed increased engagement from people inside some of the largest names in enterprise technology — SAP, Oracle, Gartner, and others.
Profile views. Content engagement. Direct outreach.
I don’t know exactly what’s driving it. But I have a hypothesis.
The agentic AI conversation is accelerating. And frameworks like CrewAI are emerging as the default approach for orchestrating multi-agent systems.
Here’s the problem:
CrewAI — and frameworks like it — impose predefined role specialization on AI agents. One agent is assigned “researcher.” Another is “analyst.” Another is “critic.” Each stays in its lane. The system coordinates handoffs. Outputs are assembled.
Sound familiar?
It should. This is org-chart thinking applied to AI. It is the same siloed, equation-based logic that drove ERP implementations, e-procurement rollouts, and digital transformations straight into the 70–80% failure band.
The technology changed. The thinking didn’t.
What 27 years of transformation failures have taught us
Insight does not emerge from predefined roles. It emerges from overlap, friction, and human synthesis.
When multiple perspectives see the same problem without artificial constraints, you get:
- Convergence (validation)
- Divergence (blind spots revealed)
- Gaps (what no one saw)
That’s where judgment comes from.
Crew-style frameworks coordinate tasks. RAM 2025 disciplines judgment.
One automates predetermined collaboration. The other enables emergent collaboration — among human and non-human agents — inside a governed readiness framework.
The pattern is repeating
Organizations are adopting agentic AI frameworks the same way they adopted ERP, cloud, and “digital transformation”: technology-first, methodology-second.
And the results will be the same.
Unless someone asks the question most organizations skip:
“Are we ready? And how do we get ready?”
#AgenticAI #CrewAI #ProcurementTransformation #ReadinessFirst #RAM2025 #HansenMethod
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The Pattern of Equation-Based Thinking Is Repeating With CrewAI — And the Results Will Be the Same as Always
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By Jon Hansen | Procurement Insights | January 2026
Something interesting is happening.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed increased engagement from people inside some of the largest names in enterprise technology — SAP, Oracle, Gartner, and others.
Profile views. Content engagement. Direct outreach.
I don’t know exactly what’s driving it. But I have a hypothesis.
The agentic AI conversation is accelerating. And frameworks like CrewAI are emerging as the default approach for orchestrating multi-agent systems.
Here’s the problem:
CrewAI — and frameworks like it — impose predefined role specialization on AI agents. One agent is assigned “researcher.” Another is “analyst.” Another is “critic.” Each stays in its lane. The system coordinates handoffs. Outputs are assembled.
Sound familiar?
It should. This is org-chart thinking applied to AI. It is the same siloed, equation-based logic that drove ERP implementations, e-procurement rollouts, and digital transformations straight into the 70–80% failure band.
The technology changed. The thinking didn’t.
What 27 years of transformation failures have taught us
Insight does not emerge from predefined roles. It emerges from overlap, friction, and human synthesis.
When multiple perspectives see the same problem without artificial constraints, you get:
That’s where judgment comes from.
Crew-style frameworks coordinate tasks. RAM 2025 disciplines judgment.
One automates predetermined collaboration. The other enables emergent collaboration — among human and non-human agents — inside a governed readiness framework.
The pattern is repeating
Organizations are adopting agentic AI frameworks the same way they adopted ERP, cloud, and “digital transformation”: technology-first, methodology-second.
And the results will be the same.
Unless someone asks the question most organizations skip:
“Are we ready? And how do we get ready?”
#AgenticAI #CrewAI #ProcurementTransformation #ReadinessFirst #RAM2025 #HansenMethod
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