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Thirty Years of Evidence Says You Can’t Metric or Govern Your Way Out of a Readiness Problem
March 9, 2026
"The question isn't whether you build an AI factory. It's whether you run Phase 0 before you turn it on."
31 CPO Appointments in 30 Days: Leadership Change or Tech Hype Cycle Reset?
January 29, 2026
31 CPO appointments in 30 days. Investment in procurement — or the accountability phase of yet another technology cycle? The technology changes. The cycle doesn't.
Isn’t it time the Boardrooms and C-Suite knew what procurement has known all along?
January 14, 2026
Why are AI initiatives running out of implementation success runway?
Why Are We Congratulating and Celebrating the Loss of a Key Member of Our Industry?
December 2, 2025
The warning signs were there in 2007. In 2015. In 2018. In 2023. We kept ignoring them. Now we're losing our best people — and celebrating as they walk out the door.
Supply Chain Confidence: A 17-Year Retrospective (2008-2025)
November 7, 2025
Can supply chain confidence be measured? Diana Esparza asked in 2008. We measured it. Then watched it decline for 17 years.
Behind The Virtual Green Room Door: A Video Sneak Peek For An Upcoming Webinar
April 26, 2022
A first-time sneak peek into a webinar's "not ready for prime time" green room.
Procurement Insights 
When Three Posts Surface Overnight, the Archive Is Telling You Something
March 10, 2026
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"The practitioners — the ones actually responsible for outcomes, not the ones writing reports about them — have been sold frameworks that failed them at a rate of 80% for two decades. With Hansen Models™, they are no longer alone."