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.
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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.
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.
