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Most enterprise AI failures don’t start with bad code or dirty databases. They start with a single, unasked question during the initial steering committee: do we need a deterministic solution, or a probabilistic one? Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of posts and articles related to this topic, and all of them where very focused […]

s your executive steering committee pushing hard for generative AI adoption? Well, your employees are actively delivering it. They are doing so by purchasing personal Claude subscriptions with their own credit cards and using them to process your company’s data. A quiet, undocumented migration of corporate intellectual property into public models, happening in plain sight. […]

Every month, a new vendor pitches the same promise: plug an AI agent into your ERP, and watch your entire supply chain optimize itself overnight. Every month, a different executive asks the same question: should we buy this? My honest answer is that most companies still have no clear idea of how to implement AI […]

Some Businesses are delaying system upgrades, waiting for AI to become cheap enough to plug into their ERPs. The latest API pricing proves the exact opposite is happening, and the “budget” alternatives will literally stop your assembly lines. There is a dangerous optimism circulating in corporate IT departments lately. Executives are holding off on major […]

Open your inbox. Scroll through LinkedIn. Sit through a single vendor meeting. The promise is always the same: artificial intelligence is here to autonomously optimize your entire supply chain. Believe me I know, It’s exhausting. The software fatigue is real. Every day brings another wave of the 200,000 new GenAI applications launched weekly, each claiming […]

(Spin-off of the series “The Human Code of ERP”) The Go/No-Go decision is ten days away, and the boardroom feels like an arena. The air is thick with blame, and you are sitting right in the middle, taking the hits. If you have spent any time implementing enterprise software, you have lived this exact scene. […]

Every vendor is selling you the “Agent Era” for your ERP. Walk past the slides and the chatbot demos, and you will find zero real-world examples of actual agentic autonomy in production. The gap between what the market promises and what the technology can actually do on your warehouse floor is the real risk. And […]

(Part 5 of 5 of the series “The Human Code of ERP”) It is 8:00 AM on a Monday, and your eyes are burning. The cut-over weekend is finally over. You and the IT team somehow survived the brutal data migration, the terrible coffee, and the endless late-night checks. Someone flips the switch. The system […]

You are using AI to turn your tough emails into polished corporate fluff. That artificial politeness is building a relational debt that will explode during your next ERP go-live. The Illusion of Automated Diplomacy In my daily work as an ERP consultant, I often see that the success of a digital transformation project relies heavily […]

(Part 4 of 5 of the series “The Human Code of ERP”) There’s a whiplash unique to this job. If you have been involved in an ERP implementation, you know exactly what I mean: the feeling of moving between two completely different dimensions on the exact same day. It is 9:00 AM, and you are […]

Last month, I opened my inbox on a Tuesday morning and found an update from a colleague regarding some critical issues. The grammar was flawless. The vocabulary was rich. The bullet points were immaculate. The entire text was completely hollow. Since ChatGPT arrived, we’ve all read those perfect messages that lack any real human substance. […]

(Part 3 of 5 of the series The Human Code of ERP) When you first start your career in enterprise software, the system looks terrifying. You log into Infor LN for the first time, stare at the endless menus, hundreds of sessions, infinite parameter configurations, and you feel an overwhelming pressure to memorize everything. The […]