Strategic Insights
Independent thinking on ERP readiness
Notes from the field on why ERP projects really succeed or fail, written for the leadership teams making the decision, not the vendors selling it.
MDCS Blog
The truth about your ERP project is usually sitting in the documents nobody reads
Almost every troubled ERP project has a moment, months before go-live, where someone could have seen it coming. The warning was rarely hidden. It was written down.
June 3, 2026
Success Stories
How We Recovered a Project That Had Already Failed Three Times
When we joined this project, it had already failed three times. The real issue wasn't the ERP system, the requirements, or the data. It was leadership misalignment about the future of the business.
May 12, 2026
MDCS Blog
How to Read a Vendor Proposal Like a Buyer, Not a Prospect
I spent close to a decade on the vendor side of ERP implementations, writing the proposals. Here are the five places where the gap between what a proposal sounds like and what it commits to actually lives.
May 1, 2026
MDCS Blog
What Is Phase 0 and Why It Exists
Most companies hand an ERP project to an implementation partner and wait for the transformation to begin. That handoff is where things start to go wrong, usually quietly, and usually before anyone notices.
April 9, 2026
MDCS Blog
You Don't Have a Technology Problem. You Have a Preparation Problem.
"Let's just pick a system and figure it out as we go" sounds like decisiveness. It is, consistently and measurably, the most expensive decision you can make.
March 15, 2026