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Stories, lessons, and hard-won insights from 30+ years inside the systems that run manufacturing companies.

Business

If You Can't Measure the Value, You Don't Have a Strategy Yet

Why vague value creates weak strategy, and why measurable value is one of the best filters in finance, operations, systems, and technology leadership.

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Business

Stop Building Features. Start Defining the Job

Why teams waste time when they fall in love with solutions before defining the actual job. A Berkeley-shaped framework applied to finance, systems, and technology decisions.

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Business

The 1% Fix: What British Cycling Taught Me About Corporate Accounting

On the philosophy of making everything a little less broken — and why the people painting the truck white are the ones who actually change things. Real texts, real systems, real frustration.

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Personal

The Compound Interest of Chaos

On the accumulation of small absurdities, and why laughing at them might be the only financial strategy that actually works. Dogs, rain texts, broken ERPs, and Harrison Ford.

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ERP Systems

I Lost Sleep for Two Years Over an Inventory Subledger

Here's what none of the consultants could figure out. A story about the two-year gap between an ERP implementation and an inventory reconciliation — and what nobody warned me about.

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