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Where to start sorting out your company, and what each step costs.
Guides
What is worth knowing before you invest in a system
Guides to help you decide with your own judgement before buying an ERP, upgrading Odoo or putting artificial intelligence to work, written by someone who implements them.
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Getting started
If your business runs on spreadsheets or the numbers never agree between teams, these are the first questions.
What is an ERP
One system where every piece of data is written once. Five signs your company already needs one, and three that it does not yet.
What Odoo costs to implement
What the total is made of, from licence to training, with my published prices and what drives the number up.
What each term means
ERP, Odoo, enterprise architecture, process mapping, BPMN, C4 and ArchiMate, explained by what they do.
Deciding on Odoo
The questions worth answering before you sign an implementation or an upgrade.
Community or Enterprise
What each edition carries, what free OCA modules cover and when the licence is worth paying.
What breaks when you upgrade to 19
What breaks across 1,321 custom modules from 20 public repositories, how often each thing appears and how to fix it.
Why ERP projects fail
The six ways an implementation falls over, the signs you are heading there and what to do before signing.
When Odoo is not the answer
Six cases where implementing Odoo is the wrong call, and what to do instead in each one.
Artificial intelligence and data
What a model really does with your data, and what a figure looks like when you can trace it end to end.
What fine-tuning actually updates
What a fine-tune teaches a model, what it does not, and where the real cost sits inside a company.
Data x-ray example
Four figures from an example company with their lineage drawn: where each one comes from and what breaks it.
Reading
The books behind the way I work.
Books
What I read, and what changed because I read it, one book per post.
The library
One hundred and thirty-two books by subject, and where I read them from.