May 17, 2026
Why Orchestration Improves Interaction Without Improving Execution and Outcomes.
May 15, 2026
Where does your organization's "operational truth" live?
May 14, 2026
Regarding AI initiative failures: AI did not create the operating tensions that GEP's and others' 2026 posts engage with. AI accelerated the consequences of leaving them unaddressed.
May 12, 2026
"In 2018, Microsoft Canada President Kevin Peesker said companies will either 'transform or be transformed.' In 2026, Sameer Verma describes where Microsoft has arrived. What sits underneath?"
May 11, 2026
"Eric Kimberling's piece on agile in ERP names a mechanism the Compounding Technology Shadow Wave™ work has been documenting at multi-decade scale. Agile does not eliminate shadow behavior. It can unintentionally legitimize it."
May 9, 2026
Three pieces, one framework. The structural pattern AI initiatives are inheriting, the diagnosis that names it, and the financial cost of leaving it unresolved.
May 9, 2026
Three technology waves accumulated before AI arrived. The Hansen Deflator Formula™ measures what AI deployments lose to the inherited substrate — and what changes the math.
May 8, 2026
AI doesn't sit alongside the prior shadow waves — it consumes them. The Compounding Technology Shadow Wave™ explains why AI initiatives struggle beyond the pilot stage.
May 8, 2026
The shadow AI adoption gap isn't a 2026 problem. It's the fourth time the same pattern has played out in thirty-five years.
The Same Answer for Thirty-Five Years: AI Literacy, Change Management, and the Substrate Question Gartner Is Not Asking
May 19, 2026
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It is largely at the substrate alignment level that an initiative's success in any technology era is determined. Is more training and change management the answer?