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Research, articles and outside ideas worth examining through a sourcing and supply chain lens.

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When Workarounds Become the Operating Model

What unofficial behavior can reveal about operational debt.

What Are We Optimizing For?

Human, AI and optimization complementarity starts with the objective.

The Coordination Problem

Procurement may have a coordination shortage, not a technology shortage.

More Data Isn’t Always More Insight

Better decisions can come from being more selective about data.

Hype Has a Cost

Technology changes faster than organizations do.

Intelligence on Top of What?

AI inherits the systems, objectives and handoffs beneath it.

What Should Still Be Ours?

The more useful AI question may be what we should not hand over.