Introducing the Legacy Business Technology Series
The gap nobody fills
Walk into any bookstore — physical or digital — and the business technology shelf is dominated by two types of books. Enterprise guides written for companies with 50-person IT departments and Fortune 500 budgets. And startup guides written for companies that were born in the cloud and have never seen a server room.
Neither speaks to the IT director at a 400-person manufacturer running SAP on-prem, the controller at a utility who is also the entire FP&A department, or the COO at a construction firm whose idea of a dashboard is a whiteboard in the break room.
That is who the Legacy Business Technology Series is for.
Four books. One reality.
The series covers the four capabilities that every traditional mid-market company needs to build — and that every traditional mid-market company struggles to build.
IT Management in Legacy Business is for the technology leaders running IT at companies where IT is not the product. Legacy system management, ERP migration, cybersecurity for unpatchable systems, OT/IT convergence, vendor lock-in, and the constant fight to prove that technology is an investment, not a cost center.
FP&A for Legacy Businesses is for controllers and finance leaders building a financial planning function from zero. Driver-based budgeting, rolling forecasts, variance analysis, and scenario planning — with frameworks that work in Excel this quarter, not after a six-figure software purchase.
Data and Analytics for Legacy Businesses is for the operations managers and analysts trying to get useful information out of 20 years of data locked in ERPs, spreadsheets, and filing cabinets. Covers the full stack from escaping spreadsheet hell to building a data warehouse to choosing a BI tool with honest pricing.
AI Leadership at Legacy Businesses is for the executives who need to lead AI adoption in organizations with aging infrastructure, risk-averse cultures, and workforces that have been doing the same job for 30 years. Making the case to conservative boards, navigating vendor selection, change management, and measuring ROI in metrics that matter to traditional businesses.
Written for people who actually do the work
Every chapter opens with a story from a real mid-market company and closes with actions you can take this week. No theory without application. No recommendations without honest pricing. No advice that assumes you have a team of 20 and a seven-figure budget.
All four books are available on Kindle Unlimited.
