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Writing on procurement, supply chain, organizations and AI integration.
AI integration: four kinds of people
Four kinds of people in non-tech companies, by capability to define the process and willingness to adopt. Not everyone will define agents and skills; the opportunity also lies in closing the technical debt.
Read →Enterprise LLM applications — comparison
This document assesses the LLM applications suitable for individual productivity.
Read →AI integration: don’t start with agents
Five stages ordered by complexity — assessment, general productivity, IT coding tools, then technical debt and agents in parallel. Why starting with agents is starting with the hardest one.
Read →Sending files is old
With Claude Code, Markdown is the default output — easy for the agent, tedious for the human reader. Why I switched to HTML, and how coding tools quietly created a richer way to share knowledge.
Read →All companies need a DOGE
DOGE's method — spend control, organizational optimization, deregulation — and why annual budgets with flat savings targets no longer fit a market under constant disruption.
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Procurement: priorities, risk and basic strategies
Using the Kraljic matrix to classify spend by supply risk and impact, then pick the right strategy per category — securing bottlenecks, squeezing leverage spend, and the rest.
Read →Supplier value proposition
How difficult — and expensive — it is for suppliers to serve your organization, and why reading that correctly is leverage at the table.
Read →Procurement operations: solving the Red Queen effect
Red tape and notary gigs consume a team's time only to keep it in place. A three-step plan to free resources for category management.
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Seven deadly sins for procurement organizations
Seven pitfalls a procurement organization has to avoid in VUCA supplier markets — from the orphaned department to risk blindness.
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