Pointing AI at Your Competitive Edge

by James Wood | Mar 07, 2026| AI, IT Strategy, Business Transformation

For a while now, much of the conversation around AI has been focused on efficiency and cost reduction. This is largely because businesses are looki...

Before You Buy Another AI Tool, Download Your Team's Tribal Knowledge

by James Wood | Feb 28, 2026| AI, Process Optimization, Process Mining

Organizations everywhere are in the midst of an AI spending spree. Copilots are being deployed, agents are being piloted, and automation platforms ...

Unused Data Is Killing Your Business Performance

by James Wood | Feb 16, 2026| Data Strategy, Data Integration, Data & Analytics

If you're like most organizations, you're not short on data. If anything, you probably have more of it than you know what to do with. Reports, form...

Upgrade Your ERP with Confidence: The Clean Core Playbook

by James Wood | Feb 05, 2026| ERP, Composable ERP, Business Transformation

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are foundational to how modern businesses operate. At the same time, many leaders have come to see them ...

The Frontier Firm: Staying Ahead on the New Business Frontier

by James Wood | Jan 27, 2026| Business Transformation, Process Optimization, Modern Work

The frontier has shifted. Today, businesses are finding themselves operating in a new frontier shaped by software.In this new environment, technolo...

When Your ERP Support Clock Hits Zero: Now What?

by James Wood | Jan 15, 2026| ERP, Composable ERP, IT Strategy

At some point, every ERP system reaches an uncomfortable milestone: the support clock hits zero. Suddenly, the system that has been quietly powerin...

Why Business Transformation Isn't DIY

by James Wood | Jan 08, 2026| Business Transformation, Digital Transformation, IT Strategy

There’s a natural temptation for leadership teams to treat business transformation like weekend home projects. With all the recent advances in tech...

The Hidden Costs of Just Making it Work

by James Wood | Jan 05, 2026| Power Automate, Business Transformation, Process Optimization

For decades, that classic American can-do attitude has helped U.S. organizations push through obstacles and deliver results against the odds. It’s ...

Our Year in Ideas: A Blog Review Countdown for 2025

by James Wood | Dec 16, 2025| AI, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Copilot

Over the course of 2025, we published a lot of content exploring the ideas, challenges, and opportunities shaping modern business technology. As we...

10 Ways to Turn Everyday Data into Uncommon Value

by James Wood | Dec 03, 2025| Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Data Strategy

Whenever we talk to customers about data strategy, we often find that they have a tendency to equate “doing something with data” with building more...

Is Microsoft Copilot Worth It? A Reality Check for 2025 and Beyond

by James Wood | Nov 21, 2025| Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio, AI

We’re coming up on the two-year anniversary of Microsoft’s unified Copilot announcement at Ignite 2023 — the moment when “Copilot” stopped being a ...

Low-Code Isn’t Dead — It’s Just Getting Smarter

by James Wood | Nov 07, 2025| Power Platform, Low-Code / No-Code, AI

Ever since I embraced low-code development platforms (LCDPs) back in 2016, I've had my fair share of debates about their merits. This includes ente...