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The ProcureTech Providers Most at Risk
July 3, 2026
"Which providers are yesterday's Blockbuster and which are tomorrow's Netflix?"
What do suppliers, couriers, buyers, and AI* agents have in common?
June 11, 2026
"We've governed suppliers, couriers, and employees for decades. Then an AI agent enters the room — and somehow all the questions vanish. That's the entire mistake."
When the Assessment Updates Itself — That Is When It Becomes an Advisory Tool
April 10, 2026
What is the difference between a consulting paper and a consulting relationship?
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
A CPO asked my view of ZIP's Enterprise Transformation Office. Here are the results of the RAM 2025 Multimodel assessment.
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?
The Post That Should Have Been Forgotten
July 4, 2026
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It had every reason to disappear — an obscure title, a term I'd never heard, and almost no reaction when I published it. Nineteen years later it's the second most-read piece I've ever written. Here's the honest answer to why.