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AI ROI: What Fortune 100 Procurement Leaders Are Seeing

Aug 24, 2026
Enterprise AI spend is growing up fast, and some of the growing pains are starting to hurt. In...
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6 Questions Every IT Procurement Leader Should Be Asking About Shadow AI

Aug 18, 2026
For years, the conversation about Shadow IT was fairly straightforward: employees found a piece of software they wanted,...
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Microsoft’s Copilot Has a New Cost Driver. Here’s Why It Matters.

Aug 6, 2026
For years, buying Microsoft Copilot was relatively easy to understand. You bought licenses, assigned them to users, and...
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Welcome to the Era of Shadow AI. What Can Procurement Do About It?

AI is spreading across the enterprise faster than most organizations realize. Join us as we examine how AI...
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Why The Best AI Discount Right Now Isn’t on a Price Sheet

Jul 30, 2026
The most useful AI pricing signal of 2026 isn’t in anyone’s rate card. It’s in frontier vendor competition....
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The New Economics of Microsoft Copilot: Managing Seats and Consumption

Microsoft’s workplace AI pricing has officially split in two. Microsoft 365 Copilot remains a fixed per-user subscription, while...
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Breaking the Single-Model Lock-In: What Microsoft Adding Claude to Copilot Teaches Us

Jul 22, 2026
Microsoft now runs three separate AI model providers inside its own flagship product: OpenAI, Anthropic, and its own...
Who Owns AI Costs
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Who Owns AI Costs? Why Procurement Must Lead the AI FinOps Conversation

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The Inference Economics Reckoning: Why Enterprise AI Costs Keep Rising as Token Prices Fall

How AI Tokenization Works
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How AI Tokenization Works: Models, Costs, and the Hidden Economics of Token Consumption

Jun 30, 2026
Understanding AI tokenization is the foundation of effective enterprise AI cost management. As part of NPI’s Mastering AI Economics:...
Governing AI Token Spend
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Governing AI Token Spend: A Five-Layer Defense Framework

Jun 30, 2026
AI spending is rapidly shifting from predictable licensing to consumption-based pricing, creating new cost and governance challenges for...
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Mastering AI Economics

NPI's Mastering AI Economics webinar series helps procurement leaders understand AI cost models, strengthen vendor negotiations, and build...