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Eric Kimberling’s Hidden Cost Of Agile In ERP And The Substrate Underneath It

May 11, 2026

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"Eric Kimberling's piece on agile in ERP names a mechanism the Compounding Technology Shadow Wave™ work has been documenting at multi-decade scale. Agile does not eliminate shadow behavior. It can unintentionally legitimize it."

The Compounding Technology Shadow Wave™ Trilogy: Executive Summaries

May 9, 2026

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Three pieces, one framework. The structural pattern AI initiatives are inheriting, the diagnosis that names it, and the financial cost of leaving it unresolved.

Is The Failure Of Your AI Initiative Already Decided By What You Did In 2016?

May 9, 2026

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Three technology waves accumulated before AI arrived. The Hansen Deflator Formula™ measures what AI deployments lose to the inherited substrate — and what changes the math.