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Agentic AI Didn’t Kill the Magic Quadrant — It Made It Optional
February 9, 2026
Why did Agentic AI demote Quadrants, Waves, and Maps?
The Widening Gap: Why Better Tech Hasn’t Fixed Procurement Failure
February 7, 2026
The tools keep getting better. The failure rates don't move. One graph explains why.
The Next Supply Chain Crisis Isn’t a Black Swan — It’s a Governance Failure You Haven’t Built For Yet
February 4, 2026
While you can't predict Black Swans, you can dramatically improve your response and adaptability.
Making the Short List: Are the Magic Quadrant “Leaders” Really Leaders?
January 31, 2026
Why did 20 years of Magic Quadrants, Forrester Waves, and SolutionMaps fail to move the 50-80% implementation failure rate?
The Rationalization Boomerang: 30 Years of Consolidate, Collapse, Rebuild (1995-2025)
January 15, 2026
The rationalization boomerang - is it time to get off the roller-coaster?
Building the Hansen Fit Score Advisory Team: Welcoming Don Osborn
November 13, 2025
He led procurement from Blue Gene supercomputing to handheld devices—incorporating IBM intellectual properties and industry technologies across military, medical, automotive, telecommunications. Welcome Don Osborn.
Fifteen Years Later: The 2010 Roundtable That Predicted Procurement’s Future
October 16, 2025
Fifteen years on, are we finally ready to admit that technology fails when relationships and readiness fail?
The Power of Social Communities On LinkedIn
September 30, 2025
Why isn't there a time stamp or best before date on procurement and ProcureTech discussion?
What are the All-Time Top 5 Procurement Insights Posts and why are they still relevant today?
September 30, 2025
For my longtime readers, what is your most memorable Procurement Insights post?
Procurement Insights 
A CPO Asked Whether Zip’s New Enterprise Transformation Office Understands Phase 0 Readiness — We Put the Question to Six Independent AI Models
February 10, 2026
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A CPO asked my view of ZIP's Enterprise Transformation Office. Here are the results of the RAM 2025 Multimodel assessment.