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ACT I. Why the Current Value System Fails

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Value is promised, bought, and lost before anyone measures it. These posts show where the losses happen, chapter by chapter.

Chapter 1: The Illusion of Value▾
  • Rewritten US Federal Quality Rules Never Check the Result
  • ‘Unit Economics’ Means Something Different to Buyers and Sellers
  • The Numbers Behind Big Purchases Are the Only Ones Nobody Audits
Chapter 2: The Broken Value Flow▾
  • The C-Suite Can See More of Procurement Now. It Trusts It Less.
  • The Purchases Your Approval Process Never Sees
Chapter 3: Value Drift▾
  • How a Purchase Stops Paying Off Without Anything Breaking
  • EU AI Act Delays Don’t Change Who Must Check AI Value
Chapter 4: The Information Asymmetry Collapse▾
  • Your Contract’s Audit Right Can’t Tell You If the Purchase Worked
  • In Due Diligence, Value You Can’t Prove Gets Priced as Risk
Chapter 5: Advisory Is Not Enough▾
  • Appointing a Chief AI Officer Won’t Make AI Deliver
Chapter 6: Tech Bloat as Governance Failure▾
  • An Australian Audit Found Upgrades Marked Complete but Unverified
  • Every Tool in a Bloated Software Stack Passed a Business Case

Next: ACT II. How Value Actually Forms, Drifts, and Becomes Credible

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