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By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 An IT project manager job description has to name the systems being changed, who owns cutover and rollback, how change control runs, and a pay band near the 2026 market of $99,000 to $130,000. A generic project manager posting states none of that. The copy-ready template is … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 The IT project manager interview questions worth asking in 2026 cover cutover and rollback authority, change control inside a live production estate, vendor scope, and the dependencies the candidate did not own. A general project manager list skips all four. That is the entire gap. It is … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Choosing an ERP for a mid-market business comes down to four checks: run your volume arithmetic against the licensed limits, price the platform question honestly, read the assumptions page, and name one person who can say no. The feature comparison is the part everyone spends five weeks on. It … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Hire an ERP project manager by testing whether they can price a change order, not by counting go-lives on a resume. Base pay runs $105,000 to $190,000 in 2026 depending on scope and industry, contract rates sit between $95 and $165 an hour, and a properly scoped … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 Hiring an SAP S/4HANA consultant starts with naming your conversion path and your workstream, because brownfield and greenfield reward opposite skill sets. Mid-to-senior consultants run $110,000 to $195,000 base in 2026, contract rates sit between $110 and $200 an hour, and a scoped search closes in two to … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia The most expensive NetSuite implementation mistakes are organizational rather than technical, and they are scope nobody controlled, requirements nobody wrote down, a quote that was cheap because things were excluded, and a system nobody owned after go-live. The software is almost never the constraint. It has been fine for … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 Almost nobody starts as a cloud architect, and most people reach the title after seven to ten years as a cloud, DevOps, or systems engineer, with base pay running $130,000 to $320,000 across the levels. The climb that sets your ceiling happens before the title, not after … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Program managers earn $118,000 to $155,000 base at mid-level in 2026 and $150,000 to $195,000 at senior, while technical program managers at scaled tech companies clear $240,000 in total compensation. Those bands come from reconciling eight public trackers against reqs our desks actually closed. Take the trackers … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia You have outgrown QuickBooks when the number of people required to answer one business question keeps climbing. Not a revenue number. A headcount-per-answer number. The ledger stays accurate the whole time. It just stops being the place anybody looks first, and the spreadsheets quietly become the real system. A … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 W2, 1099, and C2C are three ways to paper the same contractor, where W2 makes the person an employee of you or your staffing firm, 1099 pays an individual directly, and C2C contracts with the business entity that person owns. Same human being, same laptop, same standup … Read more
