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The Integrity Test: What Serious Advisors Put in Writing Before You Implement

January 22, 2026

How can you tell whether an advisor is operating as a verification authority — or as a program accelerator.

What Might Satya Nadella Say About the Fivetran MIT Report?

January 21, 2026

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

The “Torrent” Argument: Where Transformation Failure Quietly Begins

January 20, 2026

Every major failure wave starts with the same sentence: 'Things are moving so fast, we may be forced to adopt.'

The Rationalization Boomerang: 30 Years of Consolidate, Collapse, Rebuild (1995-2025)

January 15, 2026

The rationalization boomerang - is it time to get off the roller-coaster?

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.