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30 hard truths about your next ERP project
If your team had a chance to start your current business over, would you build it differently? Most leaders say they would. You probably know much more now than when you started or joined. The team here feels the same about enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
30 hard truths about your next ERP project
If your team had a chance to start your current business over, would you build it differently? Most leaders say they would. You probably know much more now than when you started or joined. The team here feels the same about enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
Everest is now Lensing
The product is live and we are grateful to our many customers who are building their businesses around it. Now, this team is ready to say we’re there—we summited—which means it’s time to drop our code name, Everest. We are now Lensing.
4 tales of finance-led transformation [complete guide]
When they write the history of this decade, historians will say that this is when finance leaders assumed their full executive authority.
Consolidating many ERPs into 1—a practical guide
M&A is all fun and gains until it’s time to integrate the businesses. Then you run into a challenge: Should you consolidate the new company’s financial systems, build an integration, or defer? You must decide this in an environment of extreme uncertainty: You’ll almost never know enough about the target company’s workflows.
The end of AI tourism
AI tourism is about to end. Companies rolled out LLM licenses to everyone, and while it’s been exciting, I think we’re going to see a backlash. CFOs are about to get very excited about SaaS again.
Your 5 ERP integration choices—select wisely
Integrating an ERP is no easy matter for teams that do it maybe once in their career. But what about teams that integrate dozens of ERPs every year? What do they know?
The most daring CFO digital transformation
This former CFO of NBC, Delta Airlines, Amazon, and elsewhere found himself at a technology company where he pursued an acquisition. It was controversial. Eventually, he sold the entire business to prove it out.
M&A synergy capture: A brief guide
An estimated 16,000 businesses were acquired last year, according to Bain & Company. Of those, 11,000 will likely fail. The chief cause is that the new owners didn’t have the financial and inventory insight to make them work.
A look inside NYT’s media transformation success
In 2014, The New York Times was struggling. Tech platforms were lifting its journalism for “content.” Digital entrants like BuzzFeed and HuffPost were stealing readers. The paper’s transformation into a digital publishing powerhouse was a miracle. It owed that to one woman.
AI broke the SDLC on both sides of the IDE—spec-driven development is the fix
One recent study found that AI coding tools made individual developers 21% more productive. And yet … team delivery metrics barely moved. It’s a paradox that I’m hearing over and over from executives all across industries.
A connected CxO's guide to real-time revenue intelligence
For the past decade, enterprise software companies operated on a comforting fiction that annual contracts, quarterly board decks, and a well-tuned Salesforce instance were sufficient infrastructure to scale a SaaS business. That fiction is now expensive.
Hot take: ERP rollouts should be led by HR
There are many analogies for ERP, but I like this one: Your ERP is a scaffold. It’s a flexible structure that molds to your business. You can use it to push parts of your business into new arrangements, but you can’t push too far—culture and people are stronger, and they push back.
