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The Invisible Tax Killing Your ERP Project
A chip truck sat idling at the scalehouse. Six months of requirements gathering. Hundreds of sign-off sheets. User acceptance testing. Conference room piloting. Everything checked and double-checked. Go-live day arrived at the pulp mill. The scaler looked at me and asked a simple question: "Sir, how do you sell chips out of this system?" I was confident. Probably arrogant. "This is a pulp mill. We make paper here. We don't sell chips here." He stared back. "Well, Mr. Wizard,
Evan J Schwartz
Nov 166 min read
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Your ERP Consultant Hasn't Bled Enough
I took down an entire business during a management meeting. It was early in my career, back when SQL Query Analyzer was the primary tool for database work. I was running mitigation scripts daily, keeping a legacy system alive while we bought time for a rewrite. One day, management called me into an urgent meeting. The system might have lost the company money, and they needed me to find it. I got up from my desk like a boss and walked into that conference room. Ten minutes in,
Evan J Schwartz
Oct 253 min read
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Pain Delta Math: Turning Frustration Into Dollar Signs
Pain Delta Math: Turning Frustration Into Dollar Signs You can feel it before you can name it. That gnawing frustration as your team...
Evan J Schwartz
Aug 53 min read
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Before You Buy: Mapping the Ghost Processes
Why you must surface the undocumented workflows haunting your ERP investment—and how AI can help. "Don’t let invisible processes derail...
Evan J Schwartz
Jul 135 min read
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