Transformation Ground Control: Digital Transformation, ERP Implementation, Change Management, and Digital Strategy
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Welcome to Transformation Ground Control, the podcast where we explore tech-agnostic digital transformation and digital strategy best practices with industry thought leaders. On this show, Eric Kimberling, Darian Chwialkowski, and other industry leaders discuss digital transformation strategies, tips, and lessons.
We also discuss organizational change management, ERP software implementations, emerging tech trends, business process improvement strategies, and other important topics - all without the software vendor marketing spin. So whether you’re just starting your digital transformation journey or you’re well on your way, tune in for some valuable insights and tips!
We also discuss organizational change management, ERP software implementations, emerging tech trends, business process improvement strategies, and other important topics - all without the software vendor marketing spin. So whether you’re just starting your digital transformation journey or you’re well on your way, tune in for some valuable insights and tips!
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What Is 'The Machine'?, Stories from the Machine, "Best Practices" & Other Gaslighting Buzzwords
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Transformation Is Like Gardening, From CIO to AI Champion, Get the Receipts — How to Vet a System Integrator
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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"AI Is Different This Time", AI and ERP: Hype vs. Reality, AI Is Only As Good As Your Data
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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Manufacturers Don't Have an ERP Problem - They Have a Decision Problem, There Is No One Size ERP Fits All, System of Record vs. System of Action
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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What Real OCM Actually Looks Like, Change Management Isn't Fluffy, The Backfill Problem
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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ERP Status Reporting, Best Interview Moments, Follow the Money: Why ERP Projects Fail
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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When Output Becomes Unlimited, Judgment Becomes Priceless, What Machines Can't Replace, You're Not the Hero — You're the Guide
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Organizations Will Struggle To Keep Up, SAP Sapphire Conference Takeaways, What SAP & Epicor Revealed
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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What Is Invoice Lifecycle Management?, Maximizing ROI & Minimizing Risk, Your Biggest Fraud Risk Is Right After Go-Live
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May 27, 2026 |
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What Is Technical Debt?, Navigating ERP Cloud Migration, Cloud Doesn't Mean You're Less Locked In
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May 20, 2026 |
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Customizing Means Failing, The Future of Industrial Operations, Your Data Belongs to Your Vendor
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May 13, 2026 |
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'Best Practice' Is Not Best for You, Global SAP Lessons, More Technology Isn't Better
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May 06, 2026 |
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The ERP Industry & the Mafia?, The Machine Is Rigged, The Safe Choice Is the Riskiest Choice
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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The Hidden Cost of Agile & ERP Implementations, 20 Perspectives from ERP Lessons, Enterprise Agentic AI Landscape in 2026
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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How Gartner Predicts That 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled By 2027, An Overview of How the ERP Software Industry Is Changing and Evolving, Why ERP Projects Fail
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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How SAP is Partnering With the Open Data Institute, The State of ERP in 2026, Why Your ERP Vendor Keeps Blaming You for Their Failures
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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NVIDIA Launches An Enterprise AI Agent Platform, How the Technology Industry is Silencing Dissent, The Cloud ERP Reality Check Every Leader Needs
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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The New AI Startup That’s Gunning For Workday, Oracle, & SAP, What Manufacturers Need to Know About Industry 4.0, What You Must Know Before Choosing A New ERP System
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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What ERP Vendor Roadmaps Reveal About AI in 2026, How Customers Are Taking Back Control of Their Technology Roadmap, Why Some ECC Customers Are Being Told to Spend Over $100M on S/4HANA
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Mastercard AI Payment Demo, Inside the Mission Control AI War Room, Why Employees Are Quietly Resisting AI
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Microsoft’s Bundling Regulatory Issues, Who Are the Best System Integrators In the Market, SAP RISE
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Oracle’s Cloud Supply Chain Capabilities, Industry 4.0, Why Software Best Practices Do Not Exist
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Why Oracle is Cutting Up to 30,000 Jobs, The Anatomy of an ERP Project Failure, Why Your Business & IT Operations Are in Conflict
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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How Restrictive H-1B Policies Are Driving Tech Talent Back to India, The Top 10 Reasons Why Transformations Fail, How CIOs Can Avoid Blame for Failures
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Rimini Street Wins Multiple Industry Awards, How AI Is Affecting the World of ERP, Microsoft D365, Is it Worth it?
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Accenture's Acquisition of Faculty, How Mid-Market ERP Systems Are at a Crossroads, Are SAP's Days As Market Leader Over?
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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New Tech Laws of 2026, Legal Shifts and Regulatory Pressures in the ERP Space, Digital Transformation Mistakes that CFO’s Often Make
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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IT’s Having Its Best Year Since 1996, The 2025 ERP Awards, How Your ERP System Is Making You Weaker
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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The Widening IT Talent Gap, How Executives Are Regaining Control of Their ERP Projects, Why Kingfisher Said No to SAP S/4HANA
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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New AI Standards Group, Talent Mistakes That Cost CIOs Millions, What You Need to Know About Working With Big 4 Consultants
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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The US Software Reform Bill, The Inconvenient Tech Truths that Leaders Don’t Want to Hear, Why the Consulting Industry Is Broken
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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New Software Pricing Models in the Enterprise Tech Space, How to Rescue a Troubled Digital Transformation Project, How to Create a Realistic Implementation Plan for Your Project
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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India’s New Data Privacy Rules, Digital Transformation Trends and Predictions For 2026, The Difference Between Project Management and Program Management
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Zimmer Biomet’s $172 Million SAP Failure, The Digital Transformation Playbook for 2026, $10 Million is Being Invested in Portugal’s AI Data Hub
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Microsoft’s Huge AI Investment in the UAE, The Future of Digital Transformation in Capital-Intensive Industries, Top 10 Enterprise Systems for 2026
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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The Big Gemma Pullback, The Future of Manufacturing Tech, Big Tech Monopolies
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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OpenAI’s Atlas Browser, What’s New in the World of Infor CloudSuite?, Long Live ECC
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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The State of Digital Transformation in Europe, Big Blunders in the Tech Space, How to Spot Trouble Before Your Digital Transformation Fails
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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A MedTech Firm Warns of Their Impact from Their Software Switch, What do the EU’s Antitrust Allegations against SAP Really Mean?, The #1 Software Proposal Mistake That's Costing Companies Millions
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Building an AI-First Strategy, What's REALLY Behind the Downfall of SAP, Blockbuster, and BlackBerry?
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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How to Get Your ERP Modernization In Tune, Allegations of Anti-Trust Behavior From SAP, The HUGE Project Management Mistake You Might Be Making
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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How Rolling Stone is Suing Google Over AI Overviews, Why Do Digital Transformations Fail?, What Do Smart Business Leaders Know About AI Success?
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Where is the ERP Market Headed?, It’s Time to Completely Re-Think ERP Systems, Microservices & Alternatives to ERP, Jan Baan
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Tech Hiring Landscape, Everything You Need to Know About Managing Careers in Technology & Consulting, 5 Lessons I Wish I Knew Before Starting My Consulting Career
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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The Microsoft Study About Jobs Being At Risk From AI, How Microsoft is Approaching Enterprise Technology, Metcash’s ERP Failure
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Behind the Scenes at Stratosphere
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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How API’s are the Key to Agentic AI, Surviving the Chaos of Digital Transformation, How to Start an AI Tech Company
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Intro to SI’s, Everything You Need to Know about Selecting the Best Integrator, How to Select and Implement the Right Systems Integrator
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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SAP’s $1.5 Billion Bet on AI, Inside a Real World SAP Implementation, Shocking Whistleblower Claims about S/4HANA
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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ERP Lessons from the Frontlines of SMB Implementations, Why SMBs Should Embrace Bots, Shocking Reason Tech Projects Fail Every Time
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Supply Chain from the Inside Out and The Impact of Trump’s Tariffs
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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How Elon Musk’s Chatbot Grok Will be Used by Federal Agencies, The Future of ERP and AI in 2025, 4 Digital Strategies That Will Dominate the Future of Enterprise Tech
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Big Tech vs. the EU, How to Slash Implementation Time and Cost, How to Cut Through the ERP AI Hype
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Why It’s Time to Rethink “Rip-and-Replace” ERP, Why ERP is Dying, 25-Year ERP Consultant Reveals Why The Industry Is Broken
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Pentagon's $11B IT Modernization Struggles, SAAQ's Government SAP ERP Project Failure, Government ERP Implementation Lessons Learned
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Everything You Need to Know About Organizational Change Management
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Rimini Street Extending Support for SAP, Lessons from a Client’s ERP Implementation, CanYour Company Survive a Cyber Attack?
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Everything You Need to Know About Creating a Digital Strategy & Roadmap for Your Digital Transformation
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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How AI Tools Bring New Cybersecurity Threats, Lessons From Complex ERP Implementations, How ERP Almost Killed Gummy Bears
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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SAP Doubles Down on Agentic AI, How to Get Ready for AI in Your Organization, Why Your Employees Secretly Hate Change
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May 28, 2025 |
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How Epicor is Doubling Down on AI, The Rise of ERP Manufacturing Platforms, Which ERP Software Has the Best ERP Features
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May 21, 2025 |
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Can Cloud ERP & AI Really Drive Sustainability, ERP Implementation in Small & Midsize Companies, Are You Overpaying For Your Technology Consultant?
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May 14, 2025 |
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Oracle’s New Role at the Top of the ERP Throne, Lessons From Government ERP Implementations, How to Conduct a Digital Transformation at No Cost
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May 07, 2025 |
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SAP & Amazon’s Involvement With AI, The World of Tech Startups & M&A, An ERP Implementation Success Case Study
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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SAP’s “Business Unleashed” Strategy, Tariffs and Their Impact on the Tech Industry & Supply Chain Management, The Truth About Big 4 Consulting
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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How AI Is Outsmarting Corporate Executives, AI Trends in Marketing and Strategy, Inside Lidl’s Massive SAP Failure
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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CRM Trends in the Market, Introducing The Executive Mastermind, AI vs ERP
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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AI & the Future of Jobs, How Robotics is Transforming Manufacturing, Agentic AI
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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The Celonis Law Suit Against SAP, Legal Pitfalls in Digital Transformations, Why Software Vendors Are the New Mafia
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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A New Autonomous AI Agent, Business Process Management in ERP Implementations, Why Business Process Standardization Fails in ERP Projects
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Salesforce Being the Best Software Company of 2025, AI and Data Strategies, A Deep Dive into the ‘Matrix’ ERP Case Study
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Apple’s $500 Million Investment in AI, Lessons From Three ERP Failures, Why the End of Big Consulting is Near
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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The Digital Transformation Dilemma, How Composable ERP is Destroying the ERP Software Space as We Know It, Why We Hate ERP Software
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Workday’s Massive Job Cuts, The Secrets to Effective IT Vendor Management, The Pros and Cons of Odoo
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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How DeepSeek is Changing the AI Sector, Inside a Massive Government ERP Implementation, Inside the Massive $100M SAP S/4HANA Failure at Spar Group
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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How Skill Shortages are Causing Transformation Delays, Lessons from 'The AI Analyst', 10 AI Features That Will Revolutionize Your Supply Chain
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Trump’s AI Oversight, Project Governance in Digital Transformations, How to Decide Whether or not ERP Consultants Are Worth the Money
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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How Microsoft is Halting the Construction of a $3.3 Billion Data Center, Explaining Digital Transformation to Your Grandma, Workday vs SAP S/4HANA: Which ERP is Right For You?
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Getting Started with Digital Transformations in 2025, Microsoft’s Plan to Invest $80 Billion in AI-enabled Data Centers, The Up-and-Coming Software Vendors You Need to Know About
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Top 10 Digital Transformation Videos from 2024
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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The Collaboration Between ServiceNow and AWS, Tech Trends and Predictions for 2025, Top 5 Hidden ERP Software Costs You need to know Now
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Macy's Big Accounting Scandal, Keys to Successful ERP Implementations, Top Transformation Mistake You’re Making
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Top Digital Transformation Interviews for 2024
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Everything you Need to Know About AI, Top AI Segments from 2024, Organizational Change Management MasterClass
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Meta’s Open Source AI Model For Government, Top Tech Trends and Predictions for 2025, How to Manage Effective Change Management
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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AI in Healthcare, Data Management and Governance in Digital Transformations, What ERP Software Vendors Don’t Want You to Know
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Vendor News: Microsoft, Salesforce & SAP, Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, Hidden Costs of ERP Software
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Hubspot's Acquisition of Cacheflow, Business Intelligence in ERP Implementations, Keys to Oracle Fusion Cloud Implementation Success
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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SAP & Carahsoft Investigation Update, Third Party Support Options, What Tom Brady Can Teach Us about Digital Transformation
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Trends in Manufacturing Tech, Q&A, AI and Mass Surveillance, SAP S/4HANA's 2027 Deadline
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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New Pricing Models for ERP Vendors, The Importance of Implementation Planning and Phase 0, The Role of Digital Transformation Executive Sponsors
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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How to Localize Your AI Strategy, ERP Implementations the Right Way, How Agile Leads to Digital Transformation Failure
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Collaboration Between Oracle and AT&T, Digital Transformation in Mergers & Acquisitions, Digital Transformation Lessons from ChatGPT
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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The ERP Implementation Planning Episode
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Workday & Salesforce Partnership, Birmingham City Council's ERP Failure, Fedex Digital Transformation Lessons
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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New Lawsuit Against Microsoft & Crowdstrike, EU's AI Act, Lessons from an Expert Digital Transformation Panel, ERP Implementation FAQ's
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Another ERP Software Cybersecurity Breach, Lessons from an ERP Implementation, Why Organizations Pursue Digital Transformations
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Crowdstrike Cybersecurity Attack, The Intersection of Manufacturing, AI and Change Management, Digital Maturity
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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AI & RPA Streamlining Hospital Operations, Top ERP Systems for 2025, & Business Transformations without Technology
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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McDonalds Discontinuing AI Drive-Thru, Marine Corps Digital Transformation Initiative, Managing Multi-National Digital Transformations, Third Stage Consulting EMEA Growth Plans
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Jul 24, 2024 |