Posts Tagged ‘Capability’
New Zealand Tracks On-Time, On-Budget Purchases but Not Results
New Zealand’s annual procurement capability report counts how many agencies recorded on-time and on-budget delivery. It has no figure for whether purchases produced their results, and its benefits reporting for significant contracts is paused.
Read MoreKansas Paid $2.8 Million and Plans to Return to the Old System
Kansas paid $2.8 million for 16 deliverables and plans to revert to the system it meant to replace. A Kansas monitoring record and a Michigan audit show what goes missing when the people watching a contract change.
Read MoreA Post-Implementation Review That Never Asked If the System Worked
An Australian agency’s plan called for a post-implementation review. The workshop it held after launch identified four priority actions, each about how projects are run. None concerned what the new system was bought to do.
Read MoreAn Australian Audit Found Upgrades Marked Complete but Unverified
An Australian audit found a department had marked every upgrade metric complete, yet the auditors could not verify the upgrades. Checking a result takes a buyer’s own handover record and funded upkeep.
Read MoreLaunching an AI Model Proves Little Until the Results Show Up
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.
Read MoreWhy Externally Tested Credentials Hold Their Value
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.
Read MoreWendell Berry’s Nine Tests for Any New Tool
Wendell Berry set nine standards for any new tool in 1987, and only one asked whether it did the work better. The other eight asked what it would cost the work already being done well.
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