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By Khurram Tehseen, FSA, Founder and Principal at Operating Alpha When an AI tool is not working in a credit or insurance operation, the cause is usually the data under it, not the model. Trace the outputs your team corrected, then run the tool on records you have checked by hand before you replace anything. … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia IT due diligence on a distributor means checking the ERP version and support dates, the customizations and integrations hanging off it, whether licenses and the MSP contract survive the sale, and who knows how it all works. Do it before the letter of intent (LOI) turns into a purchase … Read more
By Khurram Tehseen, FSA, Founder and Principal at Operating Alpha Kill any AI pilot that has no financial owner, cannot name the credit decision it changes, or has never been scored against a result that already happened. Most AI implementation failure in private credit is a pilot that nobody had the standing to stop. The … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia A HubSpot NetSuite integration works when HubSpot owns contacts, companies, and deals, NetSuite owns sales orders, invoices, and payments, and every synced field moves in one direction. HubSpot’s own connector handles that split well for one subsidiary at modest volume. It runs out when subsidiaries, custom order fields, or … Read more
The top analytics recruiting firms in 2026 are KORE1, Harnham, Analytic Recruiting, Burtch Works, Dataspace, Kforce, and Robert Half, ranked by the Placement Authority Score across analytics role segmentation, tool-stack screening depth, vertical industry coverage, and placement retention. KORE1 ranks first for its ability to screen across all four analytics tiers, from data analyst through … Read more
A data migration plan is a written document that names what moves, how each field maps, which numbers must reconcile before cutover, who approves each gate, and the exact conditions that trigger rollback. Most of what gets circulated as a migration plan is a Gantt chart with the word “migration” on it. That is a … Read more
By Khurram Tehseen, FSA, Founder and Principal at Operating Alpha Software adoption is the share of a decision that actually runs inside the system you bought, not the number of people who hold a license for it. Adoption stalls when the platform needs inputs the operation cannot produce. Training does not create an input. The … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 .NET 8 and .NET 9 both lose Microsoft support on November 10, 2026, and the recommended move is .NET 10, an LTS release supported until November 2028. Your apps keep running past .NET 8 end of life. What stops is security patching. The upgrade itself is a retarget and … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Decommissioning legacy systems means fully retiring an old platform after a migration, archiving its data under the retention rules that apply to it, cutting off every downstream consumer, and reclaiming the licenses, hardware, and access it still holds. Most migrations never finish that part. The new system goes live, … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Application rationalization is the exercise of listing every application you pay for, measuring who actually opens it, naming an owner, and putting a renewal date beside it, then deciding what to keep. Four columns. Not a maturity model, not a framework, and not something you need a consulting deck … Read more
