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Is Strand Commonality™ the Missing Key in Harnessing AI’s Power and Promise?

September 10, 2026

The streaks in a long-exposure photograph are not cars. They are the record of something moving faster than the shutter could resolve. That is where AI's real promise is sitting.

I Get It, But I Don’t

August 8, 2026

A governance framework can be well built, well governed, and still be governing a description of an operation that no longer exists.

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 CIPS Pulse Survey Found Five Risks. They’re Five Strands of One Pattern.

July 9, 2026

"The sources of disruption keep changing, the pattern doesn't"

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."

Why Would AI Produce Any Better Results Than Previous Technologies?

May 29, 2026

Why would AI produce any better results than previous technologies?

Effective SRM Was Never About the Technology Era. It Was Always About the Agents.

May 26, 2026

"Effective SRM has little to do with QBRs and more to do with agent discipline."

Marijn’s Data Is Wave Four: Why the AI Adoption Gap Was Always Going to Look Like This

May 8, 2026

The shadow AI adoption gap isn't a 2026 problem. It's the fourth time the same pattern has played out in thirty-five years.

Atlan Is Building the Context Layer. The Question It Cannot Answer Was Answered Manually in 1998.

April 23, 2026

Atlan helps agents work from the same map. ARA™-driven RAM 2025™ ensures the map is accurate — and keeps checking it as the terrain changes.

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.