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Procurement decisions don’t fail inside procurement. They fail when real-world conditions hit them. That’s what we assess.
There Is No Fate But What We Make For Ourselves: Job Displacement In The AI Era
November 12, 2025
100+ years of innovation created more jobs than it destroyed. Until now. What changed?
Posted in: Commentary
Should AI Do Your Laundry (And Your Job)?
November 12, 2025
Do you want AI to do your job? If not, what are you doing about it?
Posted in: Commentary
The Pattern That Repeats Every Decade: Why Technology Keeps Failing at 70-80% Rates
November 10, 2025
Why are organizations repeating the same mistakes with AI that caused 75-85% of e-procurement initiatives to fail 20 years ago?
Posted in: Commentary
Six AI Models Converge: The Agentic AI Governance Crisis Validates 27 Years of Readiness-First Research
November 10, 2025
When six independent AI models analyze the same governance crisis and five reach identical conclusions, what does that tell us?
Posted in: Commentary
17 Years Asking the Wrong Question: Why Procurement Readiness Matters More Than Procurement Definition
November 9, 2025
The procurement field has spent 17 years asking 'What is procurement?' The real question is: 'Are you ready to do it?'
Posted in: Commentary
Is Gartner Inadvertently Stacking the Odds Against Your AI Success?
November 8, 2025
Is the AI deck "stacked" against you?
Posted in: Commentary
In 2008, I Predicted Agentic AI and the Need for an Operating System to Break ProcureTech’s Failure Cycle. Here’s Why 90% Will Still Fail by 2026
November 8, 2025
In 2008, I asked if your enterprise had a 'Digital Nervous System.' The answer was no. In 2025, with AI agents, it's still no. That's why 90% will fail by 2026.
Posted in: Commentary
Getting It Right vs. Being Right: A Conversation About Coupa, Cirtuo, and Independent Analysis
November 7, 2025
How do you deal with challenges and debate?
Posted in: Commentary
Supply Chain Confidence: A 17-Year Retrospective (2008-2025)
November 7, 2025
Can supply chain confidence be measured? Diana Esparza asked in 2008. We measured it. Then watched it decline for 17 years.
Posted in: Commentary
Procurement Insights 
Building the Hansen Fit Score Advisory Team: Welcoming Don Osborn
November 13, 2025
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He led procurement from Blue Gene supercomputing to handheld devices—incorporating IBM intellectual properties and industry technologies across military, medical, automotive, telecommunications. Welcome Don Osborn.