Posts Tagged ‘Evidence’
Auditors Couldn’t Find the Data Behind a Program’s Savings Claims
A federal buying program cleared its coverage target. The savings it exists to produce were reported on a fraction of the same spend, and the evidence connecting the two was not available.
Read MoreA Senate Bill on AI Agents Sets Conditions on the Buyer
The first federal text on AI agents does not ask the software to behave well. It specifies conditions the arrangement must have, and most enterprises cannot meet one of them internally.
Read MoreBritain Made Buyers Publish a Verdict on Their Suppliers
The Procurement Act 2023 now makes public buyers assess their suppliers and publish the verdict. The statute never says the verdict has to be about the value the contract was bought for.
Read MoreThe Business Case for Your Purchase Was Written Without You
Most buying teams have never met business value engineering, the seller discipline that writes the case for their purchases. An insider explains what to ask for.
Read MoreYour Contract’s Audit Right Can’t Tell You If the Purchase Worked
A buyer with a right to audit can examine everything the seller spent and still learn nothing about whether the thing it bought worked. Those are two different rights, and most contracts carry only one.
Read MoreAI Vendor Checklists Have Quietly Become a Buying Standard
Enterprise buyers assembled an evidence-gated purchasing instrument for AI vendors one RFP at a time. It gates payment on proof rather than promise, it is already operating, and it still has no name.
Read MoreColorado and the EU Kept AI Disclosure and Dropped AI Assessment
Colorado repealed its AI Act in May and Europe deferred the high risk regime in July. In both cases the duty to disclose survived and the duty to assess did not.
Read MoreHow Buyers Earn Preferred-Customer Status With Suppliers
Suppliers decide which buyers get their best people and scarcest capacity. The research says that decision runs on demonstrated behavior, not on order size, and it is reissued rather than banked.
Read MoreAn IT Standard Once Required Saying Whether Investments Paid Off
ISACA once published a standard whose last process required a verdict on whether an investment delivered its value. It no longer stands alone, and the obligation it carried has no home.
Read MoreIndustry Roundtables Can’t Define Value for Your Purchases
An invite-only gathering of senior value leaders can settle what trusted outcomes mean for the people in the room. Only a standard the buyer publishes settles it for everyone who was not invited.
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