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19 articles published between November 2025 and September 2026. Where to start is below; the rest follow, newest first.
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The Implementation Has Stalled. Now What?
A stalled ERP project has one of four causes: scope, data, people or vendor. The remedies are different and applying the wrong one wastes another quarter. How to diagnose it honestly, then choose between rescue, restart and walking away.
Joinery and fabrication7 min read
You Delivered Perfectly Into a Room That Was Still Being Plastered
A finished unit delivered early is not progress. It is a liability that needs storage, protection and somebody to blame when it is damaged — and the phone call that confirmed the site was ready confirmed nothing that can be checked.
4 September 2026ReadProfessional services7 min read
The Fee Was Fixed. The Work Was Not
Firms argue about pricing models as though one of them were correct. All five are correct somewhere. What separates them is not the number on the proposal — it is what each one obliges you to measure, and a firm that cannot measure it has not chosen a model, only a way of being surprised.
4 September 2026ReadProfessional services7 min read
You Track Your Clients' Deadlines Carefully. Nobody Tracks Yours
An obligation that repeats has four parts — a trigger, a lead time, an owner and something that proves it was done. Most firms hold three of them in one person's memory, and find out which month that person takes leave.
4 September 2026ReadProfessional services7 min read
The Third Revision Was Free Because Nobody Wrote Down That the Second Was the Last
Scope in a services engagement is made of three things: what was written in, what was written out, and what was never mentioned. Every overrun lives in the third, because it is the only one with no document and no owner.
4 September 2026ReadJoinery and fabrication7 min read
Production Started Before the Client Signed. Everything After That Is a Negotiation
One moment decides whether the next change is billable. It is not the moment the client changes his mind — it is the moment production was released, and whether anybody wrote down which revision it was released against.
4 September 2026ReadJoinery and fabrication7 min read
Fifth Floor, No Lift, Priced as Ground Floor
Installation is quoted as a percentage of the joinery and delivered as an address, a lift booking, a security pass and a two-hour window. None of those were unknowable. Nobody was asked to write them down.
4 September 2026ReadJoinery and fabrication7 min read
The Job Closed in the System and Two Men Kept Going Back
The last invoice is raised, the job is closed, and the cost tail runs for months afterwards — two men, a van, a spray booth and a store issue with no job number on it. The margin the system reports is the margin before any of that happened.
4 September 2026ReadProfessional services7 min read
You Pay for Every Hour and Sell About Half of Them
Six different things get called utilisation, every firm quotes the one that flatters it, and two partners arguing about the number are usually standing four rungs apart. The useful question is not how busy people were last month. It is how much of next month is already sold.
4 September 2026ReadOdoo13 min read
Odoo Support After Go-Live: What You Are Actually Buying
Four different jobs are sold under one word, and a single monthly fee hides which of them you are paying for. What an Odoo support or maintenance contract should contain, what it must exclude in writing, who inside your company owns the system, and how to tell whether you need a contract at all.
26 August 2026ReadOdoo13 min read
Rescuing a Stalled Odoo Project: The Odoo-Specific Diagnosis
A stalled Odoo project fails in ways that belong to this product: Studio sediment nobody can account for, apps installed and called progress, a plan boundary discovered in month five. The tests that separate a project that is late from one that is dead — and the cases where changing partner makes it worse.
26 August 2026ReadERP selection9 min read
An ERP Readiness Assessment Is Only Useful If It Can Tell You Not to Buy
Most ERP readiness assessments are qualification questionnaires with a diagnostic vocabulary. They have no answer that ends the conversation, which means they are not measuring readiness — they are measuring interest. Here is what a real one asks, and what each answer commits you to.
25 August 2026ReadERP implementation13 min read
The Implementation Has Stalled. Now What?
A stalled ERP project has one of four causes: scope, data, people or vendor. The remedies are different and applying the wrong one wastes another quarter. How to diagnose it honestly, then choose between rescue, restart and walking away.
13 August 2026ReadIT governance12 min read
Who Can Change a Price at Two in the Morning
Most mid-market ERP fraud is not clever. It is enabled by a permissions decision taken in week three of the project to unblock a go-live, and never revisited. What segregation of duties actually means when you have eleven people in finance.
12 August 2026ReadDigital transformation13 min read
Transformation Before Platform: The Decision the Software Cannot Make for You
Digital transformation is a decision about how the business runs. The platform is only the instrument. Buying the instrument first is why so many programmes end with a new system and the same company.
12 August 2026ReadGo-live11 min read
What to Measure in the Ninety Days After Go-Live
Six weeks after go-live somebody asks whether it worked, and gets a slide showing 94 per cent adoption. Here is the small set of measures that actually answers the question, the baseline you should have captured and probably did not, and how to read a number that gets worse before it gets better.
4 August 2026ReadGo-live12 min read
The Cutover Weekend: Seventy-Two Hours That Decide How the Project Is Remembered
Everything before the cutover is reversible. Everything after it is an incident report. The freeze, the balances, the count, the open documents nobody thought about, the sequence and its dependencies, the person who says go, and the rollback that must exist and almost never does.
24 July 2026ReadERP implementation12 min read
How Long an ERP Implementation Really Takes, and What Makes It Longer
The vendor said four months. It will not be four months, and the reason has almost nothing to do with the software. A realistic phase shape, the work that cannot be compressed at any price, and the difference between live and working.
21 July 2026Read
ERP implementation10 min read
Why ERP Projects Die in Data Migration — And How to Be One That Survives
Read the post-mortems and the same cause of death appears again and again. Not the software, not the budget, not resistance to change. Data migration — and the beautiful lie every project starts with.
19 November 2025Read
Change management12 min read
Why Your Best Employees Become Your Biggest Resistance — And How to Turn Them Into Champions
The people who fight your ERP hardest are usually not the lazy ones. They are the ones who built what you are replacing — and they are protecting it. Read their resistance as information.
7 November 2025ReadAfter the reading
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