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"Smart people across disciplines rarely fail because they disagree. They fail because no one translated."
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"Smart people across disciplines rarely fail because they disagree. They fail because no one translated."
In January 2025 I asked whether any AI could tell me what time of day orders come in. One did — right after I told it order timing was the variable. That one-second gap, between answering a question and knowing which question to ask, is why adding an AI agent to an undiagnosed field doesn't build an intelligent ecosystem. It builds a faster version of the existing misalignment. Gemba walks one floor. The agent field has no floor.
Why Gartner's 2025 version of my 1998/99 graphic has everything but the engine—and what that engine is.
In 1998, I called it the Metaprise. In 2025, Genesys calls it 'agentic ecosystems.' The language changed. The physics didn't.
A century of strategy. Zero foundation for implementation. It’s time we stop pretending the Big Firms were ever built for ProcureTech.
A century of strategy. Zero foundation for implementation. It’s time we stop pretending the Big Firms were ever built for ProcureTech.
What is Data Singularity and why does it enable us to move beyond the limitations of sequential thinking in Procurement and business?
When Precision Sounds Like Rhetoric (Until Reality Catches Up)