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AI vs. The Experts: Who Actually Predicted the Future of Procurement?
Will Procurement Teams Shrink in 2026?
It is time for our retrospective! In this episode of Proc & Roll, hosts Conrad Smith, Natasha Gurevich, and Zachary Bachir look back at their 2025 forecasts and lay out their bold predictions for the year ahead.
We even let an AI agent grade our 2025 scorecards. Did we hit the mark on the "AI Hype Cycle" crashing into the "Data Wall"?
In this episode, we cover:
🔮 The 2025 Scorecard:
The Data Wall: AI confirms that the hype cycle crashed in Q2 2025 as companies paused projects to fix master data.
The Amazon Effect: Intake management became the hottest…
The skinny
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