Digital Transformation

One Year at Pure Procurement: Insights and Lessons from a Rookie

Three lessons from year one: clarity, relationships, resilience

The Agentic Procurement Team Playbook

A readiness assessment and system design guide for CPOs evaluating autonomous procurement technology.

How to Predict Your ProcureTech Timeline (Without a Crystal Ball)

The power of Reference-Class Forecasting

The Most Important Requirement That’s Not in your RFP

What actually matters when your RFP misses something important

What Is a Conference Room Pilot (CRP) in Procurement Technology?

How to run a CRP that validates processes, people, and decisions

The Pixar Method for Procurement Transformation

No RFP. No requirements doc. No Gantt chart.

The Obsolete Procurement Platform Checklist

Is your procurement system built for a world that doesn't exist anymore?

SAP Ariba Just Killed the Legacy Source-to-Pay Suite

After years of whispers, the market leader finally pulled the trigger

Your Colleagues Are Not The Problem...

The digital transformation shortcut in your head doesn't exist.

Nobody Wants an "Amazon-Like" Buying Experience...

...especially not Amazon! (Here's what they actually optimize for)

Limited Ammunition: The CPO's Digital Dilemma

How many bullets are in your "ProcureTech Gun"?

Digital Procurement Is Not a Job for B-Players...

It's not "just a system implementation..."

Your ProcureTech Roadmap One-Pager

A tool to communicate your roadmap to anyone

The Role of Technology in Supply Chain

It needs to serve your objectives. Ignore the shiny objects.

How to Use Procurement Software Analyst Reports

Tools to help craft your procurement technology roadmap

Your Digital Transformation Timeline is Too Short

The power of long-term thinking in organizations with 'shortcut culture'

The Power of 'Small Bets' in Procurement Transformation

'Thinking in bets' to maximize the changes of success when transforming your Procurement function

Is the Vendor "Single Source of Truth" Concept Obsolete?

The first of many Sunday Night Notes...

6 Rules for Your Procurement Digital Transformation