01Comic Library

Library · November 2026

Where execution breaks, told in pictures.

Comics from twenty years of procurement and transformation. No clients, no figures, only the patterns that return in every organisation.

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02The strongest sentence in the collection

Good people rarely fail in bad faith.

Before blaming people, read the system. The whole collection turns around this sentence.

Good people rarely fail in bad faith

03Noir series

Ownership, truth, execution.

Book pages in a dark style: short theses on ownership, ambiguity and the price of truth. In English.

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  1. Ownership is a threat

    English

  2. Designed to fail

    English

  3. The cost of truth

    English

  4. The breakpoint und Hold the line

    English2 versions

  5. Monday: The ambition is real

    English2 versions

  6. Good people rarely fail in bad faith

    English3 versions

  7. Opening thesis: five failure patterns

    English

  8. At the event: Most events create attention

    English2 versions

04Transformation journeys

From the starting point to the goal, panel by panel.

Stories about shared services, sourcing and system roll-outs up to go-live. Companies and system names are invented or kept neutral. In English.

13

  1. The illusion vs. reality in procurement

    English

  2. Noise is not the problem

    English2 versions

  3. Incompetence or design?

    English

  4. Agreement is not commitment

    English

  5. Global GBS transformation: The Client journey

    English

  6. Dario’s challenge: GBS integration

    English

  7. Transforming procurement narratives

    English

  8. Optimizing sourcing support

    English

  9. GBS operational transformation journey

    English

  10. Optimizing GBS: the 8-step integration journey

    English

  11. Modernize procurement: GBS journey

    English2 versions

  12. Project Northbridge: the path to Procurement 2.0

    English2 versions

  13. From UAT to go-live: system integration lessons

    English

05In German

Four stories in German.

The way to One Procurement, a shared services build-up, a go-live and a roadmap in three stages.

4

  1. An der Weggabelung: der Weg zu One Procurement

    German2 versions

  2. GBS Ignite: von operativer Stärke zu strategischem Mehrwert

    German

  3. Vom UAT zum Go-Live: NovaFlow

    German

  4. Roadmap nach vorn: Crawl, Walk, Run

    German

More of this

The scenes behind the pictures.

The Painpoint Cinema shows the documented scenes from twenty years of procurement, finance and sales. And if you use your own AI agent, you can fetch the comics through our MCP server.

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