A note before you start: the story is finished without this part. The four articles before it are the whole argument, and if you are done, you are done, with nothing missed. This last one is for the curious. It is where I tell you how we are using all of this right now, because […]

Twenty years of buying taught me what actually mattered. Now that we’re the ones being hired, it’s the bar we try to clear. I spent twenty years hiring consultants. I sat through the polished decks, approved the statements of work, and picked the impressive logo over the right team more than once. I got plenty […]

Why most data transformations stall at the platform, and what has to fall first. Most data transformations I’ve seen over twenty years of watching, buying, and running them have failed in almost exactly the same way. The failure isn’t the platform. The failure is the sequence.A company decides it’s time to modernize. Leadership approves budget. […]