Browsing All posts tagged under »procurement transformation«

To Ensure AI Implementation Success, Are We Finally Ready to Move Past the 1983 Decision Hierarchy Framework?

August 27, 2026

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Build a private instrument beside the system, or assign people to bend your practice into it. What does that mean, and what does it cost in the AI era?

Where AI Belongs in a Procurement Decision — and Where It Does Not

August 26, 2026

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Every AI deck shows you where AI goes. This one shows where it doesn't — and why that's the part that decides the outcome.

The Accident Report Names a Cause. The Flight Recorder Lets You Sit in the Seat Before the Outcome Even Happened.

August 23, 2026

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What is the difference between a case study and a case lab? The details.

The Hansen Case Labs: A New Course, By Invitation Only

August 22, 2026

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Procurement Insights · Jon W. Hansen, FCIPS Most case teaching hands you a story with the ending already attached. Someone decided what went wrong, wrote it up, and you spend the session finding the clues that were pointed out to you. It feels like analysis. It is recall. Starting this autumn, I am running something […]

Nobody Surveyed the Four O’Clock, Or: Knowing That Everybody Jumped Is a Fact, Not a Reason

August 7, 2026

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Ask an executive whether their organization uses AI and 12.2 percent say yes. Ask a worker whether they used it in their main job and 35.9 percent say yes. Same country, same period, same agency asking. Neither survey is wrong — and only one of those groups is doing the work.

Their Numbers, Not Mine

August 7, 2026

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What are the three most dangerous findings in Deloitte's new AI research — and why will they derail your AI initiative?

The Number Nobody Collects

August 4, 2026

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Nobody measures how often an initiative quietly changes what it was trying to achieve. That absence is the finding — and it is what makes your ROI number meaningless.

AI Agents Are Being Deployed Across Sixteen Domains. Procurement Isn’t One of Them.

July 10, 2026

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"Agents go first where the machine can check the machine. Procurement is where a human still has to be involved."

The Foundations Don’t Change: From Kraft to Kraft Heinz

July 6, 2026

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Kraft Heinz is relearning a lesson the archive recorded in 2009.

Why a Checklist Could Never Have Saved This Contract

June 25, 2026

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A 1998 lesson in strand convergence — and why checklists and technology stacks are not sufficient in the Agentic AI era.