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Glass G-Commerce: Strong Technology, Missing Methodology
January 13, 2026
What 30 Years of Procurement History Tells Us About Glass's G-Commerce.
Nothing Changed — Except the Speed
January 11, 2026
Nothing Fundamental Has Changed in Transformation — Only the Speed at Which Failure Reveals Itself
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."
The Missing Governance Layer: Why Every Framework Assumes What None Measure
January 9, 2026
Enhancing versus replacing models like Kaizen, Porter, Kraljic, and SCOR
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.'"
Know Your Odds: Why Practitioners Would Have Better Luck at the Casino
January 4, 2026
You have better odds at a blackjack table than implementing procurement technology without a readiness assessment. At least the casino publishes the odds.
18 Years of New Year Insights: How One Thesis Predicted Every Transformation Failure
January 2, 2026
Technology waves change. The failure pattern doesn't. An 18-year retrospective of one thesis that was never disproved.
The Hackett Group’s AI Paper: What Five AI Models Found When They Read the Data
December 28, 2025
Five AI models read Hackett's latest paper. All five found the same buried lede: 18 years of data prove technology doesn't close the performance gap. Organizational readiness does. But that headline doesn't sell consulting engagements.
RAM 2025 Multimodel Assessment: Gartner’s “Guardian Agents 2029” Graphic
December 25, 2025
Gartner's Guardian Agents: FOMO or Fact?
Procurement Insights 
The Rationalization Boomerang: 30 Years of Consolidate, Collapse, Rebuild (1995-2025)
January 15, 2026
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The rationalization boomerang - is it time to get off the roller-coaster?