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  There is a particular kind of organizational discomfort that does not get talked about enough. It is knowing your current system is no longer serving the organization, knowing change is coming, but not quite being ready to make the move. I call it the messy middle. And in my experience, organizations can spend farRead more

  If you’re evaluating ERP solutions, you’ll eventually be faced with an important decision. Do you invest in a single ERP platform that manages most of your business in one integrated system? Or do you build a best-of-breed environment using specialized applications that work together? It’s a question I hear all the time, and it’sRead more

If you are evaluating ERP systems right now, you are probably also evaluating who should help you do it. There are a lot of firms out there offering ERP selection support, and from the outside they can look similar. Glossy presentations, confident language, promises of a smooth process. So, I want to take a stepRead more

  If you are still running Microsoft Dynamics GP, I want to have an honest conversation with you. Not a scary one, but an honest one. Because there are some important dates on the horizon that you really do need to know about, and the best time to start planning is right now, before theRead more

  Let me paint a picture that might sound familiar. Your finance system has been in place for ten, maybe fifteen years. It was a solid choice when you put it in. Your team knows it inside and out. It handles the core financial operations just fine. But somewhere along the way, things started gettingRead more

  ERP projects rarely fail because of technology. They fail because of people. Culture is the risk that never appears on a project plan, yet it often has more influence on outcomes than timelines, budgets, or system features. When ERP implementations introduce real change, resistance often shows up long before go-live. If it goes unmanaged,Read more

  ERP projects rely heavily on subject matter experts. From an HR and finance perspective, these are often the same individuals who carry the most institutional knowledge and the greatest operational responsibility. The challenge is that ERP implementations place sustained additional demands on SMEs at the same time the business still needs to perform. ThisRead more

    Double Hatting During ERP Transformation: The Hidden Cost to Your Business Most ERP and finance transformations do not fail because the technology is wrong. They fail because responsibility spreads too thin and ownership becomes unclear. Double-hatting during an ERP transformation is one of the most common ways this happens. One of the mostRead more

    AP Automation Starts With Process After years of working alongside finance teams, I have noticed something consistent about Accounts Payable. Most AP teams are not broken. Most people are doing their jobs well. The real issue is how much of the work remains manual. Invoices arrive in too many formats. Approvals depend onRead more

  ERP problems do not come from heavy governance. They come from weak governance. When governance is unclear, ERP systems become harder to manage over time. Changes slow down. Decisions stall. Confidence in the system fades. The technology still works, but the business stops trusting it. That breakdown does not happen overnight. It happens asRead more