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The 6 Accountability Questions That Consultants, Analysts, and Solution Providers Rarely, If Ever, Ask
December 27, 2025
The 6 questions that determine whether your transformation will succeed—and why most vendors hope you never ask them.
Understanding The 6th Accountability Question
December 27, 2025
Who is responsible when an AI initiative fails?
14 Years Later, Same Question: What Is Gartner Actually For?
December 27, 2025
Five AI models scored 10 recent Gartner graphics. Clarity: 6.8. Promotional: 7.3. Likelihood of reversing the 80% failure rate: 2.7. I first asked today's question in 2011. Still waiting.
Why ConvergentIS Earned Top-of-Market Scores—And Why This Isn’t a Technology Story
December 26, 2025
ConvergentIS just earned 9.7s and a perfect 10 from Spend Matters. But they've also walked away from major accounts that weren't ready. The scores prove the technology works. The exits prove that technology alone isn't enough.
Two Billion-Dollar Strategies Failed. One Didn’t. Here’s Why.
December 24, 2025
In 2005, Oracle and SAP each launched aggressive platform strategies worth billions. One ended in a 5-year delay. The other ended in a $1.3 billion lawsuit. Meanwhile, the 80% implementation failure rate never moved. Today's graph shows what they missed.
A Major Academic Study Just Reframed Enterprise AI—and Clarified the Path Forward
December 24, 2025
The 80% failure rate in enterprise AI isn't a technology problem. A new 65-page study from five elite universities just explained why—and what actually works.
Five Headlines. One Structural Break.
December 18, 2025
Five unrelated headlines. One pattern you don’t get to ignore anymore.
The Missing Layer in Procurement’s 4 Levels
December 10, 2025
Tanya W.'s 4 Levels of Procurement maps individual evolution from Order Taker to Transformation Engine. But what happens when a Level 4 practitioner lands in a Level 1 organization? The 18-year archive shows why most never make the climb — and it's not for lack of trying.
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Why “Augmented Intelligence” Became the Invisible Third Rail of Enterprise AI
December 27, 2025
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Human-in-the-loop models work regardless of technology era. Tech-led models fail regardless of technology era. That's not theory—that's 27 years of production data.