Robert Ardell
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 EDI analysts earn $68,000 to $105,000 on average in 2026 depending on which tracker you read, and the word you put in the job title moves pay more than the years of experience behind it. Developer-titled EDI roles clear $131,000 on Glassdoor. Analyst-titled roles doing the same … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Most mid-market ERP implementations take six to twelve months, and the variable that moves that number most is not the software but how many people on your side can make a binding decision without escalating. A two-person core team and a six-person core team running identical scope … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 To hire a Workday HCM consultant in 2026, scope the req by module rather than by title, because Core HCM, Absence, Time Tracking, Benefits, Advanced Compensation, and Recruiting each draws from a different pool at a different price. The title tells you almost nothing about who can … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 The full stack developer career path in 2026 runs junior to mid in two to four years, mid to senior in three to five, then forks into staff engineer, architect, or engineering manager. Base pay across that arc runs roughly $80,000 to $260,000 depending on which fork … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 An embedded software engineer job description has to name the silicon, the layer of the stack the person owns, where the hardware physically sits, and any safety standard the product is certified against. Base bands run $140,000 to $225,000 in 2026 depending on which of those four … Read more
IT staff augmentation is contract labor you direct yourself. How the model works, the four shapes it takes, what a bill rate is made of, and the co-employment rules vendors leave out.
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Whether to buy staff augmentation or managed services comes down to one test. Has the work stopped changing? Managed services prices a settled function. Staff augmentation prices an unsettled one. Get that backwards and it is the contract that fails, not the people you put under it. … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Hire an ERP consultant when the work in front of you changes how the system is designed, and hire another administrator when it only changes how the system is configured. That one distinction settles the argument faster than any symptom list, including the seven below. Difficulty is … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Hire a Boomi developer by scoping three things before the req posts: which runtime they inherit, whether EDI and agent governance are in scope, and the band. Base pay runs $102,000 to $167,000 in 2026, contract pay rates sit near $48 to $64 an hour, and a … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor at KORE1 IT staffing revenue in the United States reaches $37.7 billion in 2026, up 1% after three straight years of decline, according to Staffing Industry Analysts. That is the first top-line growth the segment has posted since 2022. It is also roughly one-tenth the size of what … Read more
