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Procurement decisions don’t fail inside procurement. They fail when real-world conditions hit them. That’s what we assess.
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What Does Y2K Have in Common With DE&I? More Than You Think — And It Should Worry You About Your AI Initiative In 2026.
March 20, 2026
Every technology wave. Same failure. Different name. Your AI initiative is next.
What Mattel, North Carolina, and Virginia’s eVA Knew About AI Failure Before AI Existed
March 6, 2026
18 years later, Gartner names the AI failure pattern. The Procurement Insights archive documented it in 2008.
When AI Agents Talk to Each Other: Why Elon Musk’s “Singularity” Warning Proves RAM 2025 Was Necessary
February 3, 2026
Elon Musk says a social network where AI agents talk to each other is the beginning of the "singularity." From a RAM 2025 perspective, it's something far more familiar: the DND case at machine speed.
Why the Outcomes Debate Misses the Point
February 3, 2026
Governance and outcomes are not rules. They are the linchpins of harmonization.
Raw Data Is Not Truth, It Is Potential Meaning: The Hansen Governance-First Data Fabric™
February 1, 2026
How do you avoid tearing your data fabric? Realizing that raw data is not truth, it is potential meaning.
A Missouri View of Digital Transformation
January 21, 2026
Organizations skip 4 weeks to save time. They lose 3 years. The math has never made sense.
Technology Is Not a Solution — It’s an Enabler
January 18, 2026
In 1998, they asked me to automate procurement. I asked what time the orders came in. That question changed everything.
Which One Of The Following Five Graphs Tells The Most Important Story?
January 18, 2026
Analyst rankings. Vendor landscapes. Adoption frameworks. They all skip the same step — and that's why 80% still fail.
The Boomerang Tax: Four Graphics That Change Everything
January 16, 2026
The $1.2B+ cost that nobody's measuring — and the one assessment that prevents it.
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A Veteran CPO Finally Tells Me What I Am Not Seeing
March 20, 2026
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A veteran CPO just told me over a coffee why my work resonates but doesn't always lead to action. And he was right.