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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 […]

(Deel 4 van 5 van de serie "De menselijke code van ERP") Deze baan kent een unieke vorm van abrupte overgang. Als je betrokken bent geweest bij een ERP-implementatie, weet je precies wat ik bedoel: het gevoel dat je op dezelfde dag tussen twee totaal verschillende dimensies heen en weer beweegt. Het is 9:00 uur 's ochtends en je bent […]

Afgelopen maand opende ik op een dinsdagochtend mijn inbox en zag een update van een collega over een aantal cruciale kwesties. De grammatica was foutloos. De woordenschat was rijk. De opsommingen waren onberispelijk. Maar de hele tekst was volkomen inhoudsloos. Sinds ChatGPT bestaat, lezen we allemaal wel eens van die perfecte berichten die elke menselijke diepgang missen. […]

(Deel 3 van 5 van de serie De menselijke code van ERP) Wanneer je net begint met je carrière in bedrijfssoftware, lijkt het systeem angstaanjagend. Je logt voor het eerst in op Infor LN, staart naar de eindeloze menu's, honderden sessies, oneindige parameterconfiguraties en je voelt een overweldigende druk om alles te onthouden. De […]