Our approach starts from evidence, not a template.

We scope to the question, not a standard package

Our approach is to start every engagement with the specific decision in front of you: a vendor shortlist, a program that looks like it is drifting, or an SI build that needs an outside check. We size the work and the fee to that question. If the honest answer after a first conversation is that you do not need us, we will tell you that instead of writing a proposal anyway.

We show the reasoning, not just the conclusion

Every figure we use traces to a published source or is labeled plainly as our judgment, with the reasoning given alongside it. We work from the same evidence base as our sister research publications, ERP Executive, ERP Strategy, and ERP Benchmark: published vendor support dates, cost and timeline ratios, and the warning signs behind our program health check. See the group disclosure for how the four sites relate.

We stay on one side of the table

We take no referral fees, placement fees, or partner incentives from any ERP vendor or systems integrator. Our approach treats that as a condition of the work, not a marketing line: a recommendation paid for by the party it recommends is not independent, whatever it is called. Every comparison we make names a situation where each option is the right one; we do not publish a vendor ranking with no stated conditions.

We right-size the team to the engagement

ERP Strategy Partners is a new, independent practice. We are not going to claim a client roster or a program count we do not have, because we do not have one yet. What we commit to instead: the person who scopes an engagement is the person who does the work, the scope is written down before it starts, and we staff an engagement to what it actually needs rather than to a standard team size.

We work phase by phase, with a range instead of a fixed date

A selection advisory engagement commonly runs across the demo and negotiation phases of a four- to seven-month selection; a program assurance review runs one to three weeks for a point-in-time read or standing monthly through build and test; SI oversight runs from design through the first weeks after go-live. We give a range and say what moves it, because a fixed number sold before we have seen your program is a guess dressed up as a plan.

How to check us

Ask any firm you are considering, including us, three things: who specifically does the work, what they are paid by anyone other than you, and what record they would show you if they had one. Our answers are on the about page. If you want to see the standard we hold our own research to before you talk to us, read an insight or score your own program with the health check first.