Procurement Insights

Why are independent disciplines beginning to converge on the same determining variables?

There is a McKinsey post making the rounds this week. The headline finding is one I have no quarrel with: transformation comes from rewiring how work gets done, not from adopting new tools. Embed AI across a workflow and you get faster cycle times; layer it onto an un...

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

Procurement Insights

There is a genre of business writing that never goes out of style: the numbered list. Twenty rules for AI success. Ten steps to digital transformation. Seven habits of resilient supply chains. The forma...

As automation absorbs the transactional layer of procurement, the relational layer it leaves behind turns out to have been deciding the outcome all along — and pressure quietly bends it in ways no dashboard catches.

Elvire Regnier, a former CPO, made an observation on LinkedIn this week that is worth sitting with. As AI absorbs the transactional work of procurement, she ar...

Across disciplines, capable people often appear to disagree when they are in fact describing the same thing in different languages. The cost of that untranslated difference is most of why organizations misfire. ...

A $50-billion industry has spent decades trying to kill the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is still here. That is not a failure of adoption — it is the physics showing through.

For twenty-five years, the spreadsheet has been the tool everyone agrees is wrong. It is error-prone, fragile, ungoverned, unauditable. Every enterprise platform since has been sold, in part, as the t...