Supply Chains are Broken.

• Terrorists in the Red Sea.
• The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed.
• Piracy is back off the Ivory coast.
• Climate change is leading to Panamanian droughts and reduced Canal capacity.
• Natural Disaster / Storms are on the rise and traversing the Capes is riskier than ever.
• China’s Zero Tolerance policy means complete port shutdown on the detection of a single virus.
• Sanctions cut off entire countries.

Old Guard Insight is gone.

• AMR was swallowed by Gartner, who lost the last of their great analysts.
• Harte Hanks gutted Aberdeen.
• Forrester saw (well-deserved retirements).
• Even the IDC Outsourcing greats moved on!
• Spend Matters is gone. (Rest in Peace)
• A space that once had almost 200 independent blogs/analyst (firms) now has barely 20.
  (SI once hosted a resource site that tracked each and every one.)(New) Tech is only causing chaos!

  We’ve went through 5 generations of tech-du-jour in the last 25 years.

  • • 1. World Wide Web
      2. SaaS
      3. Fluffy Magic Cloud
      4. Predictive Analytics
      5. AI

  Not one solved the problems they promised — and the current tech, AI, is failing faster than ever before (with a tech failure rate already at an all time high of 88%). (6% of companies are seeing a return on their AI investments. That’s all!)

  It’s our darkest moment in Procurement and Supply Chain to date.

  We need guidance more than ever. We need the masters!

  We need to call for the return of the Enterprise Irregulars.

  Most of you won’t remember — but the greats in our space came back together back in the 2006 to 2008 time-frame and launched the portal that would collectively change our space before each of them went off to form their own ventures and change a part of the space on their own. Some of those parts survive, some don’t. But we need them back together. If you agree, echo the call!

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