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For technology leaders: AI and software purchases, and whether they delivered after go-live.
In the book: Chapter 3: Value Drift (2) · Chapter 5: Advisory Is Not Enough (1) · Chapter 6: Tech Bloat as Governance Failure (1) · Chapter 7: Value Is Not Promised; It Is Proven (6) · Chapter 8: The Buyer Lifecycle Is Progressive Governance (1) · Chapter 9: The Value Control Loop (4) · Chapter 10: The Buyer Governance Pyramid (1) · Chapter 12: Compounded Value (2) · Chapter 13: The AI Amplifier (1) · Chapter 14: Who Controls Value Engagement? (3) · Chapter 15: The Value Lattice System (1) · Chapter 17: VIGOR: Governance and Realization (2) · Chapter 19: Preemptive Value Architecture (2) · Chapter 20: The Buyer Value Practice (3) · Chapter 21: Decision Artifacts That Govern Outcomes (2) · Chapter 22: Embedding Buyer Governance (2)
Companies Track AI Spending but Not the Value It Creates
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.
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 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Colorado repealed its AI Act in May and Europe deferred the high risk regime in July.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 MoreMost Companies Set Goals for Purchases and Never Check Them
Define, evidence, verify, correct. Most organizations run the first arm well and stop. An open loop leaves every purchase downstream of it running on trust rather than record.
Read MoreEvery Tool in a Bloated Software Stack Passed a Business Case
Every tool in a bloated stack passed a business case. None passed a test nobody set: what the money must do, what evidence proves it, and the date someone checks.
Read MoreWhy Big Four Reports Shipped With Fabricated AI Citations
Deloitte, KPMG and EY each shipped a report with fabricated citations inside eight months. None of them decided to skip the check. The check was never priced, so it never happened.
Read MoreA CFO’s Four AI Guardrails All Point at the Buyer’s Own Systems
A CFO lays out exactly what enterprise AI accountability requires. Every requirement points at the buyer’s own systems, and none of them point at the vendor.
Read MoreEurope Lets AI Buyers Complain About Suppliers, With Evidence
Europe just gave the AI buyer a formal complaint right against its supplier. The statute puts the burden of evidence on the buyer, which is where it always belonged.
Read MoreMost Firms Claim an AI Return Without Knowing the Cost
Ninety-eight percent of executives report a return on their AI. Twenty-six percent can see what it costs. A return without a denominator is an impression, not a ratio.
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