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The Algorithms Were Always in the Middle. They Were Waiting to Be Set Free.
September 18, 2026
What is your AI missing that nobody told it to look for?
Double Marginalization and the Deployment of AI Agents
August 11, 2026
Deploy an agent per function and every one of them will perform. That is the problem, not the reassurance.
Why I Have Never Quite Been Satisfied with the Term “Supply Chain”
July 25, 2026
I've used the term "supply chain" my entire career — and never quite trusted it. Not the words; the mental model they smuggle in. A chain teaches you to hunt for the broken link. But nothing important moves in a line — it moves in a weave, and the failure is never in a single strand or thread. It's in the pattern.
The Agentic Organization Isn’t New. It’s a Bigger Trainyard — and the Real Risk Is an Empty Tower.
July 24, 2026
The "agentic organization" isn't new. I ran a version of it in 1998 — a trainyard where humans governed the tracks. The trains are AI agents now. What hasn't changed is who has to be in the tower. And the danger was never the trains.
The Tower of Babel Problem: Why Smart People Keep Talking Past Each Other
June 23, 2026
"Smart people across disciplines rarely fail because they disagree. They fail because no one translated."
An AI Agent Is an Extension of the Ecosystem — Not the Ecosystem
June 8, 2026
In January 2025 I asked whether any AI could tell me what time of day orders come in. One did — right after I told it order timing was the variable. That one-second gap, between answering a question and knowing which question to ask, is why adding an AI agent to an undiagnosed field doesn't build an intelligent ecosystem. It builds a faster version of the existing misalignment. Gemba walks one floor. The agent field has no floor.
When Gartner Rediscovers The Metaprise (And Still Skips Phase 0)
December 30, 2025
Why Gartner's 2025 version of my 1998/99 graphic has everything but the engine—and what that engine is.
From Metaprise to Agentic Ecosystems: The 27-Year Journey to Architectural Truth
December 5, 2025
In 1998, I called it the Metaprise. In 2025, Genesys calls it 'agentic ecosystems.' The language changed. The physics didn't.
When Were They Ever Qualified?A Consolidated 5-Model Assessment of McKinsey and the Big Firms** (EXECUTIVE VERSION)
December 2, 2025
A century of strategy. Zero foundation for implementation. It’s time we stop pretending the Big Firms were ever built for ProcureTech.
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Nineteen Years, Read in a Day
September 22, 2026
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