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Agentic AI Didn’t Kill the Magic Quadrant — It Made It Optional
February 9, 2026
Why did Agentic AI demote Quadrants, Waves, and Maps?
We Ran a Multimodel AI Assessment on the Organizations Behind Supply Chain Digital’s Top 100 Leaders — Here’s What Their Public Narratives Reveal About AI Governance Readiness
February 9, 2026
When it comes to readiness and AI governance, who leads the leaders?
The EU AI Act Didn’t Regulate Intelligence — It Regulated Readiness
February 8, 2026
The EU AI Act takes effect in six months. It doesn’t ask how smart your AI is. It asks whether you can prove who decided, why, and with what authority. In ProcureTech, that readiness has not been independently measured. Until now.
New Tires on an Old Car: What $30 Billion in ProcureTech M&A Actually Bought You
February 7, 2026
Opposite paths. Same destination. Neither crosses 50%. The first independent, mathematically derived practitioner success probability assessment for SAP Ariba and Coupa — and why direction matters more than position.
The Widening Gap: Why Better Tech Hasn’t Fixed Procurement Failure
February 7, 2026
The tools keep getting better. The failure rates don't move. One graph explains why.
The $4.3 Billion Question Nobody Asked: Three Phases, One Acquisition, 18 Years of Evidence
February 7, 2026
SAP acquired Ariba for $4.3 billion. We scored all three phases. Technology went up. Outcomes went down. 18 years of evidence explains why.
Do You Know If Your ProcureTech Vendor Is Ready for the EU AI Act?
February 6, 2026
"Only around 8% of organisations have that 'readiness." Tim Cummins
The EU AI Act Just Made Organizational Readiness the Law
February 6, 2026
The EU AI Act's deployer obligations mirror what Phase 0 has measured since 1998.
Now Available: The Zycus Consolidated Assessment Report
February 6, 2026
Does the "Grand Slam" of analyst recognition, actually translate into market share growth, implementation success, or competitive dominance?
Procurement Insights 
A CPO Asked Whether Zip’s New Enterprise Transformation Office Understands Phase 0 Readiness — We Put the Question to Six Independent AI Models
February 10, 2026
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A CPO asked my view of ZIP's Enterprise Transformation Office. Here are the results of the RAM 2025 Multimodel assessment.