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How Many of Yesterday’s Procurement Professionals Are Today’s Leaders — How Many Will Lead in the AI Era?
February 11, 2026
"I would definitely go to another of Jon's seminars." The current CTO of McDonald's Canada who attended my procurement training in 2008.
10 Deals. $30 Billion. Zero Readiness Assessments.
February 10, 2026
$30B made the tools better; it made the outcomes worse — because nobody measured readiness.
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
A CPO asked my view of ZIP's Enterprise Transformation Office. Here are the results of the RAM 2025 Multimodel assessment.
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.
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How AI Transparency And Governance Works In The Real World: A RAM 2025™ Multimodel Case Study
February 11, 2026
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This is what AI transparency looks like when it's operational, not theoretical.