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Typographic cover: 94% of procurement teams use AI at work every week, 6% deliver exceptional value

94% of procurement teams use AI every week. 6% of procurement teams deliver exceptional value.

Adoption statistics measure the newest tool, not the deepest capability. The functions being graded 'low uptake' have been running AI since before the people writing the reports knew what it was.

  • methodology
  • consulting
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A procurement requirement without a threshold is not a requirement

The ANAO audit of Australia's $7 billion infantry vehicle procurement found that 'mature, proven technology' appeared in the RFT without definition, threshold, or evaluation criteria. The selected platform is developmental. The lesson is not to write better requirements. It is to stop treating a stated requirement as a substitute for a measurable one.

  • audit
  • public-sector
  • methodology