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Procurement decisions don’t fail inside procurement. They fail when real-world conditions hit them. That’s what we assess.
Advisory Team Dialogue: When Don Osborn Asked About AI Agents—And Exposed an Industry Irony
November 14, 2025
We don't track that." Four words that predict AI implementation failure.
Posted in: Commentary
Building the Hansen Fit Score Advisory Team: Welcoming Don Osborn
November 13, 2025
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.
Posted in: Commentary
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
Procurement Insights 
If AI doesn’t transform organizations, then who does?
November 16, 2025
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If AI doesn't transform organizations, then who does?