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Concepts explained, standards pressure-tested, and market claims answered. The posts follow the book's three acts. ACT I: why the current value system fails. ACT II: how value actually behaves. ACT III: how value is governed into existence. Start with the act that matches your question, jump straight to a topic below, or browse everything. Claims here stay under review; what changes is recorded in The Claims Register. New to the vocabulary? The glossary defines the standard’s terms in one place.
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Executive Order 14402 exists to achieve demonstrable returns on investment. Every duty it creates lands before the solicitation goes out, and nobody is assigned to establish afterwards that the return arrived.
Procurement has learned to price what it gives up at the table. Nothing on the other side of the signature prices what it got.
A sale closes against a promise the account team never sees written down and inherits anyway. A buyer-governed standard, set before the first conversation, holds both teams to one document.
Europe’s new procurement proposal puts a legal floor under the weight given to quality at award and asks for a record when each contract ends, but leaves the buyer to check whether the quality arrived.
A value shortfall is booked as a one-time variance. Because value compounds, an ungoverned year removes the base the next years would build on, and only a multi-year record of realized value shows the loss.
Business cases add their improvements together, but the improvements multiply through one another. The additive case understates the value available and hides how a shortfall in one term pulls down the rest.
Getting a model into production is a milestone the deploying team awards itself. A capability is demonstrated at the point of outcome, and in Domino’s 2026 survey the organizations that built governance first were also the ones delivering faster.
The market’s newest answer to the alignment gap is a C-suite seat that owns none of it. Alignment is not agreement, and custody is structural or it is absent. Rebuild the table.
Across 37.7 million US resumes, credentials that someone outside tests and renews keep adding wage value, while badges stop paying after the first. Most enterprises build capability the badge way, by adding.
Accenture’s July report finds AI spend landing on the cost line while the value it creates goes untracked. It names the cause accurately. Its fix, a shared forum, leaves the metered bill where it was.