BCG calls the CFO confidence gap a procurement credibility problem. It isn't. It's a definition problem that procurement created and then blamed finance for not understanding.
Photo: Craig LovelidgeDfT has a well-designed lessons-learned framework. The Government Internal Audit Agency confirmed in January 2026 that programme teams don't apply it. The NAO's March 2026 prescription for Northern Powerhouse Rail is to monitor whether the lessons are being applied.
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.
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.
