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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.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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?'

Is Gartner Inadvertently Stacking the Odds Against Your AI Success?

November 8, 2025

Is the AI deck "stacked" against you?

Supply Chain Confidence: A 17-Year Retrospective (2008-2025)

November 7, 2025

Can supply chain confidence be measured? Diana Esparza asked in 2008. We measured it. Then watched it decline for 17 years.

The Critical Difference: Applying Your Company TO the Framework (Not the Framework TO Your Company)

November 5, 2025

Are you managing the AI framework or is the AI framework managing you?

You Don’t Overcome Bias: You Understand And Adapt To It Before Automating It

November 4, 2025

You don't overcome bias. You understand and adapt to it BEFORE automating it