One method, seven ways in
Every engagement is a fixed fee or a fixed monthly role — you buy an outcome or an accountability, never days. Where you join depends on where you are: each service answers one question you're carrying right now, and each creates the evidence for the next, so you never buy twice. Not sure which fits? The discovery call is the place to work that out.
ERP Readiness Audit — £4,500 fixed
"Are we ready for this — and what would getting it wrong cost us?"
In two weeks, an independent, board-ready answer. You'll walk away with a readiness verdict across the dimensions that sink projects, the risks specific to your organisation named and costed, a sequenced roadmap of what to do first, and a board readout you can act on the same week. Half the Audit fee is credited against a Selection Sprint signed within 60 days.
The outcome: you know exactly where you stand before serious money moves. The place to start, unless you're already mid-journey.
ERP Selection Sprint
"Which system, which partner — and can we prove it?"
The right system and implementation partner, chosen on evidence, in four to six weeks — without six months of demo theatre. You'll walk away with a decision your board can sign off, scored evidence for how it was made, vendors tested against your processes rather than their slideware, and commercial red flags caught before signature.
I bring hands-on delivery experience of the systems mid-market organisations actually shortlist. Where I know a system from the inside, that is disclosed — never preferred. Every candidate is scored on the same weighted scorecard, and I take no commission from any vendor. The recommendation is yours to audit.
The outcome: the right system and partner for your business, chosen on evidence — not on the best sales pitch.
Implementation Blueprint
"We've chosen. Can we actually deliver this?"
A plan the board can fund and the team can follow — before the integrator's clock starts running. You'll walk away with the programme plan with phases and gates, a resource model that's honest about your team's capacity, governance that catches problems early, and a cutover strategy and budget baseline.
The outcome: your programme mobilises on your terms, not the integrator's.
Client-Side ERP Programme Leadership
"Who carries this through go-live?"
I run your programme from your side of the table: the plan, the risks, the integrator, the board reporting, your team's direction. Committed gate to gate — not locked in for the duration — and stepping up to full cutover intensity when go-live approaches: migration trials, go/no-go ownership, cutover command, hypercare.
The outcome: the integrator delivers the system. I make sure it's the system you were promised.
ERP Programme Assurance
"Our PM runs the project. Who checks it's on the rails?"
Ongoing independent challenge during implementation. Your project manager keeps running the programme — I hold a steering seat, review the evidence at every gate, challenge the integrator where challenge is due, work directly with your executive sponsor, and give your board an independent view it can trust. Three-month minimum, then monthly rolling.
One test tells you whether you need Assurance or Leadership: if the project slips, whose name is on it? If it's your PM's, you want Assurance. If it should be mine, you want Leadership.
The outcome: a true picture of where your programme stands, at every gate — before small problems become expensive ones.
ERP Programme Recovery
"This project has lost its way. Can it be saved?"
Troubled ERP programmes rarely fix themselves. I step in to stabilise things: establishing what's really happening, rebuilding the plan and governance, resetting the relationship with the implementation partner, and getting the programme back under control with a credible route to completion.
This is work I take on deliberately. At Salute Mission Critical, I was brought in to recover a stalled EMEA Sage Intacct implementation — delivering the full platform while keeping existing transaction flows running in parallel, before leading the post-acquisition integration of three group companies across the UK and Ireland. Recovery requires a different set of skills to a clean-start programme, and it is a capability I have built across two decades of complex delivery.
The outcome: a programme brought back from difficulty to a deliverable, trusted plan.
ERP Go-Live Assurance Review
"Are we actually ready to go live?"
A one-off, fixed-fee readiness assessment before cutover. I review the evidence — migration trial results, UAT completion, open defects, cutover plan, hypercare arrangements, business readiness — and give you an independent go/no-go recommendation with conditions. If the evidence says you're not ready, that is what the review will say; an honest "not yet" a month before go-live is the cheapest problem you'll ever fix.
The outcome: a go-live decision made on evidence, with your board's confidence behind it.
Fractional IS Leadership
"Who owns our systems now we're live?"
CIO-level ownership of systems, data and improvement — without the full-time hire. The improvement backlog, vendor management, budget and board reporting, a quarterly strategy refresh, and first call when something breaks. Rolling monthly, cancel any time.
The outcome: the system you bought becomes the floor, not the ceiling.
How engagements work
Every engagement is a fixed fee or a fixed monthly role, agreed before work starts and defined by a written scope. The Readiness Audit fee is published because it's the natural place to begin; everything else is priced on scope — one call to find out. No day rates, no vendor commissions, no meter running.
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