Insights
Field notes on internal systems, workflows, and the work between software. Written for the people who run operations — not for people who sell software to them.
An ERP is a system of record: it stores the final transaction, accurately and permanently. But the decisions, exceptions, approvals, and handoffs that produce that transaction happen somewhere else — usually in spreadsheets and inboxes. Understanding that difference tells you when to customize the ERP and when to build beside it.
Praxyt Editorial ·
Nobody decides to build business-critical software in a spreadsheet — it happens one tab at a time. These seven signs tell you when a file has quietly become a system your operation depends on, plus a decision framework for what to do about it: keep it, govern it, connect it, convert it, or replace it.
Praxyt Editorial ·
The loudest problem in a building is rarely the most expensive one. This is a practical method for ranking candidate workflows on ten criteria — frequency, labor burden, error cost, delay cost, handoffs, exception rate, key-person dependence, customer impact, data availability, and complexity — with a real scored example worked through.
Praxyt Editorial ·
A Workflow Review is a working session where we map one of your workflows and find the friction worth fixing first.