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Procurement decisions don’t fail inside procurement. They fail when real-world conditions hit them. That’s what we assess.
The Mayo Clinic And Cerebras Names Their AI Model STRAND: Why The Procurement Industry Should Take Note
December 23, 2025
Mayo Clinic's new AI model is called STRAND. In 1998, I called my SR&ED-funded procurement theory Strand Commonality. 27 years apart. Same insight: latent signals hide in the connections, not the strands. Clarity shows you the map. Discoverability shows you what the map left out.
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This is the piece many agentic conversations still miss: readiness isn’t just clarity — it’s discoverability.
December 23, 2025
Governance prevents scale from going wrong. Strand Commonality reveals where scale is already breaking. Readiness isn't just clarity — it's discoverability. That's the piece many agentic conversations still miss.
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The Case for Phase 0: Industry Voices on Readiness-First Transformation
December 22, 2025
This isn't a framework to consume. It's a methodology to apply.
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I Didn’t Build a Camera and Look for Ways to Use It
December 22, 2025
Amazon Lens Live lets you shop what you see. In 1999, I used a ball camera to solve the same problem — but in enterprise procurement. The technology wasn't the solution. The SR&ED-funded theory behind it was. Agent-based thinking: 27 years waiting for non-human agents to catch up.
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Where Are You On The AI – Human Spectrum?
December 21, 2025
What is the difference between talking to AI and thinking with AI?
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Why This Made No Sense in 2008 — and Why It Suddenly Does
December 20, 2025
In 2008, I wrote that static systems fail because reality moves faster than they adapt. Very few engaged. This week, Snowflake invested $75-100 million in the same insight.
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When Semantics Becomes Strategy: The Conversation That’s Finally Possible
December 19, 2025
A $74 billion company just discovered that AI needs shared meaning. They're building half of it. The other half has been waiting since 1998.
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Still Teaching the Gap: Why SCOR, TOC, and Porter Don’t Explain the Failure Rate
December 19, 2025
Forty years of curriculum. Same gap. Same failure rate. The frameworks evolved. The line never moved.
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A Major Academic Study Just Reframed Enterprise AI—and Clarified the Path Forward
December 24, 2025
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The 80% failure rate in enterprise AI isn't a technology problem. A new 65-page study from five elite universities just explained why—and what actually works.