April 8, 2026
In 2005 we documented it on video. In 2026 MIT, McKinsey, and Stanford HAI confirmed it independently. The failure rate never moved. The missing diagnostic never changed. Here is the original record — and why it matters more today than the day it was delivered.
March 13, 2026
While practitioners can't control the ProcureTech market, they can control their engagement with it.
March 13, 2026
There is a difference between predicting the future and understanding the future.
March 2, 2026
It took 75 years for smoking rates to fall after the evidence was published. Enterprise technology failure rates haven't moved in 40. What finally breaks the pattern?
January 15, 2026
Why are broadly applied vendor rationalization and eliminating maverick spend initiatives a good thing?
December 26, 2025
Advantage comes less from bigger, faster tools and more from pre‑work that builds deep, agent‑level understanding before the snap.
December 12, 2025
Isn't it time procurement practitioners stopped paying the failure tax that finances an ecosystem where only 20% succeed?
December 11, 2025
Every industry timeline celebrates 35 years of ProcureTech innovation. None recognize the failure rate that accompanied each era: 70% → 75% → 80%. Technology kept improving. Outcomes got worse. One equation explains why — and what finally collapses the failure rate.
The Missing C-Pieces: Why Practitioner Posts on AI in Procurement Rarely Reach the Budget Holders
April 12, 2026
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Shaun Syvertsen and James Meads are asking the right questions about AI in procurement. But there's a layer missing — and it's the one that controls the budget.