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A short, curated route through the best episodes for your ERP situation.
ERP can feel like a subject you have to learn before you are allowed to ask a sensible question. You do not. Pick the situation closest to yours and start with one of these conversations.
This is a short, curated route through the archive. It is for people choosing a first ERP, teams in the middle of an implementation and practitioners who want to go deeper.
Choosing your first ERP
When do you actually need an ERP?
Start here if you are wondering whether the business has really outgrown its current systems. We look beyond revenue and focus on the operational signs that matter.
How to choose an ERP: five questions to answer before a demo
A practical way to define the decision before vendors start shaping it for you.
QuickBooks vs ERP: when to upgrade your business software
A useful starting point for growing businesses trying to decide whether entry-level accounting software is still enough.
Planning or recovering an implementation
How to run an ERP discovery week that actually works
How to turn discovery into decisions, evidence and a workable plan rather than a calendar full of meetings.
How to build the right ERP implementation team
Who needs to be involved, what they are responsible for and why job titles alone do not build a good project team.
ERP data migration: practical lessons and common mistakes
What to move, what to clean and why data migration becomes a business decision long before it becomes a technical one.
Five reasons an ERP project falls apart before go-live
A candid diagnosis for teams whose implementation is drifting, stalling or becoming harder to control.
Living with or fixing ERP
Upgrade or migrate: how to tell what your ERP really needs
A framework for separating a system problem from an implementation, process or adoption problem.
Should you downgrade from Tier 1 to Tier 2 ERP?
Why a supposedly smaller system can sometimes be a better operational fit, and what you give up when you move.
Should you customise your ERP?
Five arguments for customisation and five against it, with the trade-offs that tend to disappear from simple rules.
Five things that break when you put AI in your ERP
For ERP people who want a grounded discussion about what AI changes in live business systems.
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