The final article in the series describes the sequence: five steps, an item-by-item comparison with the old way, capability categories instead of product names, and tying acceptance to evidence.
Percentages vary from firm to firm; the mechanism is what lasts: mechanical work gets cheaper, discovery and diagnosis gain value. BCG's resource shifting and the 5 rules of the new economics.
The license is the tip of the iceberg: 6 visible + 4 hidden cost items, the TCO frame, and the shortest way to lower cost — measurement.
An honest profile of the three approaches + 5 decision criteria. The brand is the outcome of the diagnosis, not its starting point.
Cleanup during migration is the most expensive kind: a 5-step plan (inventory, standards, dedup, validation, sustain) + 3 common mistakes.
Will AI rescue ERP? Gartner, Deloitte and Forrester data point to three root causes: dirty data, unmeasured processes, unaudited trust.
7 questions to answer before selecting software: ownership, real processes, data quality, scope, resources, metrics, change management.
Failure rates don't improve with new technology because the problem is the model: the structural contradiction of man-day pricing — and 5 questions for the proposal table.