Browsing All posts tagged under »AI Readiness«

The Foundations Don’t Change: From Kraft to Kraft Heinz

July 6, 2026

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Kraft Heinz is relearning a lesson the archive recorded in 2009.

The End of Functional Silos Has Arrived. The Direction Just Reversed.

June 4, 2026

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When the CFO and the COO are the same person, what happens to the silos? I wrote about this in 2008. Brittany Bagley just embodied it in 2026.

Maverick Spend Was Never the Problem

June 3, 2026

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"For twenty years we tried to eliminate maverick spend. The AI era is about to show us it was never the problem — it was the signal."

Technology Changes. The Story Doesn’t.

May 29, 2026

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We don't predict failure. We identify the conditions that produce it.

Thirty Years of Evidence Says You Can’t Metric or Govern Your Way Out of a Readiness Problem

March 9, 2026

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"The question isn't whether you build an AI factory. It's whether you run Phase 0 before you turn it on."

The Shadows on the Wall: Why the ProcureTech Failure Rate Has Survived Every Technology Era

March 7, 2026

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Thirty years. Five technology eras. One statistic that never moved. The problem was never the technology.

ISM Is Right — But Real Readiness Doesn’t Start Where They Think It Does

February 26, 2026

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What does AI "talent readiness" have to do with technology?

When Words Lose Meaning: Why Definitions Matter More Than Frameworks

January 24, 2026

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The AI gap means different things to analysts, consultants, solution providers, and practitioners — and only one definition actually matters.

What Might Satya Nadella Say About the Fivetran MIT Report?

January 21, 2026

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Technology doesn't have culture. People do. Nadella understood that. This report forgot it.

14 Years Later, Same Question: What Is Gartner Actually For?

December 27, 2025

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Five AI models scored 10 recent Gartner graphics. Clarity: 6.8. Promotional: 7.3. Likelihood of reversing the 80% failure rate: 2.7. I first asked today's question in 2011. Still waiting.