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Technology Is Not a Solution — It’s an Enabler
January 18, 2026
In 1998, they asked me to automate procurement. I asked what time the orders came in. That question changed everything.
Posted in: Commentary
Which One Of The Following Five Graphs Tells The Most Important Story?
January 18, 2026
Analyst rankings. Vendor landscapes. Adoption frameworks. They all skip the same step — and that's why 80% still fail.
Posted in: Commentary
The Opaque Clarity of the AI Black Box Revealed
January 17, 2026
The Black Box was never an AI problem. It was always a governance problem. Here's the proof — and the solution.
Posted in: Commentary
The Boomerang Tax: Four Graphics That Change Everything
January 16, 2026
The $1.2B+ cost that nobody's measuring — and the one assessment that prevents it.
Posted in: Commentary
The Rationalization Boomerang: 30 Years of Consolidate, Collapse, Rebuild (1995-2025)
January 15, 2026
The rationalization boomerang - is it time to get off the roller-coaster?
Posted in: Commentary
Rajib Gupta’s Post And Why It Is Potentially ‘Dangerous’ After All These Years?
January 15, 2026
Why are broadly applied vendor rationalization and eliminating maverick spend initiatives a good thing?
Posted in: Commentary
The AI Implementation Gap: 2020-2025 — Or Shouldn’t We Be Measuring Success Instead of Documenting Failure?
January 15, 2026
Shouldn't we be measuring success instead of documenting failure?
Posted in: Commentary
Isn’t it time the Boardrooms and C-Suite knew what procurement has known all along?
January 14, 2026
Why are AI initiatives running out of implementation success runway?
Posted in: Commentary
A Sneak Peek Excerpt from an Upcoming Paper
January 14, 2026
AI doesn't fix misalignment — it detonates it. Welcome to the Exploding "D" phase.
Posted in: Commentary
Procurement Insights 
The Archive Advantage: Why Lived Experience Is the Counterweight to the Black Box
January 18, 2026
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Anyone can wire up multiple AI models. No one can manufacture 27 years of documented pattern recognition.