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Nine Papers, Free to Read

01
Pricing

Fixed Fees Change the Incentives

A day rate pays the seller for time. A fixed fee pays for an outcome. The incentives are not the same.

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02
Pricing

Why We Publish Our Prices

What changed when we put fixed-scope fees and sample outcomes on the website, and what we would tell anyone considering it.

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03
Method

Sizing Savings Without Overclaiming

How to put a number on an opportunity in a way a finance director will accept.

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04
Method

The Baseline Is the Most Underrated Deliverable

Week one, not the final deck, decides whether any result can be proved later.

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05
Operating models

Owners, Not RACI

A single accountable name beats a chart nobody consults.

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06
Digitisation

Exception-First Process Design

Let the clean majority clear itself and send only the genuine exceptions to a person.

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07
ERP & systems

ERP Without the Overrun

Where ERP programmes lose the money, and the gates that would have caught it.

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08
Digital & AI

Build or Buy for AI

The five questions that settle it, and the costs that get left out of both sides.

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09
Transactions & M&A

Day-1 Is Won in the Weeks Before It

Day-1 is a number, not a date. What has to be true before the first morning.

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Method

What a Free Findings Report Contains

Exactly what arrives at the end of the free week, section by section, with a redacted example.

11
Digital & AI

Guardrails Before Pilots

AI projects fail on governance more often than on technology. What to write down first.

12
ERP & systems

What Vendors Do Not Tell You About Licence Escalators

Indexation, audit clauses and renewal traps, drawn from the negotiation work.

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