Are Company Boardrooms Ruining Their Procurement and Supply Chain Capabilities from the Inside Out?

Subtitle: The Case for Board-Level Accountability in Technology Transformation

Description:

The 80% failure rate in procurement technology transformations isn't a mystery. It's a choice.

For 18 years, I've documented the same pattern: Boards approve multi-million dollar investments without readiness evidence. They compress timelines, defund change management, and then blame practitioners when initiatives collapse.

This isn't a technology problem. It's a governance failure.

This white paper presents the case that Chairmen and board members should be held 100% accountable for every ProcureTech initiative failure—and provides the framework to make that accountability operational.

Inside you'll find:

→ The Governance Chain of Failure — How capital allocation decisions structurally guarantee implementation failure

→ The Clarity-Authority Matrix — Why even excellent fractional leaders get trapped in organizations that aren't ready to hear the truth

→ The Compounding Failure Effect — Why skipping Phase 0 doesn't just waste today's budget—it erodes your ability to succeed with tomorrow's AI

→ Success Probability by Technology Era — The mathematical reality facing organizations from ERP through Autonomous AI (2029-2035)

→ Five Board-Level Requirements — Concrete governance actions that can be discussed at your next board or audit committee meeting

Core Thesis: If human agents cannot effectively collaborate with each other, they will never be able to effectively collaborate with AI agents.

The window is closing. Organizations that build readiness discipline now will be the 5-15% that succeed with Agentic and Autonomous AI. Everyone else compounds their way to irrelevance.

Author: Jon W. Hansen | Creator, Hansen Method & Hansen Fit Score | 42 years in high-tech | procureinsights.com

Format: PDF | 8 pages