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Why I’m Done Tracking Gartner — and What I’m Focusing on Instead
January 10, 2026
"Gartner is not wrong. They are simply not designed to solve the problem of implementation success in the AI era."
Posted in: Commentary
Independent 2025 Validation of 1998 Strand Commonality Theory: Practical Application for 2026
January 9, 2026
"ProcureTech providers are not solution providers."
Posted in: Commentary
The Missing Governance Layer: Why Every Framework Assumes What None Measure
January 9, 2026
Enhancing versus replacing models like Kaizen, Porter, Kraljic, and SCOR
Posted in: Commentary
The Dog Whistle Problem: Why Boards Can’t Hear the Crash Coming
January 9, 2026
Gartner predicts what might happen. Phase 0 reveals what's already happening. The crash isn't in the future — initiative failure is happening now.
Posted in: Commentary
Has Gartner Ever Explained Who “THEY” Are?
January 8, 2026
"Gartner's predictions are always written in passive voice: decisions 'will be made,' buying 'will be' intermediated. But who is the subject of these sentences? And when 40% of projects fail, who takes the blame? Hint: it's not 'they.'"
Posted in: Commentary
Practitioner Abandonment: What Happens After Your ProcureTech Initiative Goes Up in Flames?
January 8, 2026
In 2008, a Category Manager at the State of Georgia called me. His consulting engagement had just ended. His team was stuck in a 'what's next' holding pattern. No one was coming back. In 2025, I got a similar call. Different practitioner. Different decade. Same abandonment. The technology changed. The pattern didn't.
Posted in: Commentary
You’re Not Crazy. You’re Just in the Wrong Quadrant.
January 7, 2026
The Branson Plan makes for inspirational reading — but it's a disaster for ProcureTech transformation.
Posted in: Commentary
The Fractional CPO Paradox: When Seeing Clearly Isn’t Enough
January 7, 2026
Are company boardrooms ruining their procurement and supply chain capabilities from the inside out?
Posted in: Commentary
Tech Stack vs. Layer Stack: Why One Fails and One Sustains
January 6, 2026
The tech stack asks: "What can we deploy?" The layer stack asks: "What can they absorb?" Only one survives Year 5.
Posted in: Commentary
Procurement Insights 
The Executives Who Fail Aren’t the Ones Who Don’t Know — They’re the Ones Who Can’t Admit It
January 10, 2026
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What are the two smartest things you have ever said? Mine are: "I don't understand" and "Am I missing something?"