Right-sizing compliance software: what small utilities should pay for
What a small utility program needs on day one, what it can grow into, and what it may be paying for without using. Plus the questions to put to any vendor.
What a small utility program needs on day one, what it can grow into, and what it may be paying for without using. Plus the questions to put to any vendor.
Re-keyed data, follow-ups that slip between tools, and records scattered at audit time. Where disconnected systems cost a program its time.
Five ordinary questions, a stopwatch and a week. Find where your program leans on a scramble, a workaround or a single person's memory before an auditor does.
Messy exports, historical context left behind, reconciliation nobody owns. What actually goes wrong in a legacy migration, and how to plan around it.
Notes from a few days at Catalyst, where the theme was hospitality and public trust. Why trust is rebuilt one interaction at a time, and where compliance work sits inside that.
There is more than one way to move off spreadsheets. An honest look at three paths and what each one costs beyond the invoice.