Articles & Opinions
Thought leadership and commentary — clearly labelled opinion.
Thought leadership and commentary — clearly labelled opinion.
A reading shelf. Articles ship when they earn their place.
Articles & Opinions is where the firm argues a position. Thought leadership on enterprise software, the Odoo ecosystem, services-firm economics, ERP market dynamics — anything where the right thing to do is take a stance rather than describe a system. Opinion pieces are clearly labelled and own their argument.
These articles are read by buyers researching Linescripts before a vendor conversation, by peers in the Odoo agency ecosystem, and by engineers evaluating us as an employer. Honesty is the tone; specificity is the standard.
Most ERP implementations succeed at launch and fail in operating reality. Six failure modes — and why the root cause is almost always governance, not technology.
Read the articleAn opinion: bolting AI onto a system with inconsistent data and undecided process does not produce insight. It produces wrong answers faster, and the unglamorous prerequisites still come first.
Read the articleAn opinion: the polished ERP demo sells a fiction. It shows the software on clean data and a happy path, and the gap between that and operating reality is where the project starts to fail.
Read the articleAn opinion: Phase 2 is where deferred problems go to die. A hard scope decision pushed to a future phase becomes a budget negotiation that never resolves, and the problem ships by default.
Read the articleAn opinion: the implementation fee is the small, visible number. The real cost of an ERP is the years of operating it afterward, and that is the number that never reaches the proposal.
Read the articleAn opinion: untrusted reports are almost never a reporting-tool failure. They are the visible end of inconsistent, optional, worked-around data entry, and no dashboard fixes an input problem.
Read the articleAn opinion: every shadow spreadsheet running alongside the ERP is the truest requirements document the project has. It is precise evidence of where the system does not fit.
Read the articleAn opinion: a large share of ERP customization is not a genuine requirement. It is the cost of avoiding an internal process decision, because bending the software is easier to ask for than agreeing.
Read the articleArticles & Opinions is the editorial counterpart to How We Work. Where How We Work describes the firm's operating discipline, the articles in this category argue why the discipline matters — using specific cases, named failure modes, and clear positions.
Adjacent surfaces: Company Perspective for strategic firm-level positions; How We Work for the principles underneath each opinion.
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