Systems
Integrations fail at the edges
The happy path is the easy part and it is what gets demonstrated. What separates an integration that lasts from one that quietly loses data is entirely in the failure cases.
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Insights
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E-commerce
B2B pricing without plugin workarounds
Trade pricing that lives half in the ERP and half in plugin configuration is the most common reason a B2B store cannot be maintained. The fix starts with writing down who owns each number.
Design
Design the states your product is actually in
Interfaces are usually approved as screenshots showing ideal content. Then the build meets the empty state, the six-line error and the customer with three hundred orders.
Strategy
Do you actually need a mobile app?
A large share of commissioned business apps would have been better as a well-built mobile web experience. Here is the short list of reasons that hold up, and the recurring costs nobody puts in the quote.
Strategy
What a discovery phase has to produce
Half of what agencies sell as discovery is a sales process with a report attached. The difference is testable: could you hand the output to a different supplier and get a comparable quote?
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