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The Vihren Labs Operator Standard

Seven principles for running the enterprise IT stack, from fifteen years in the operator's seat. The single best page to understand what Vihren Labs is — and your door into the catalogue.

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Step-by-step guides

Programme Delivery & Enterprise IT PMO

The ERP modernisation business case — the honest case, build-vs-buy, and the cost of not acting

Procurement & Vendor Management

IT vendor & SaaS TCO — the true three-year cost, not the invoice price

Transformation & SSC/GBS

The SSC/GBS transition plan — FTE sizing, knowledge transfer, and the exit to BAU

The Job Decoder — 6 questions that tell you what a role actually is

Programme Delivery & Enterprise IT PMO

The PMO status report that doesn't lie — defensible RAG, RAID, and gates

Transformation & Shared Services

How to size an offshoring or SSC transition — the FTE math nobody teaches

Why transformations fail — the 7 failure modes and the operating spine that prevents them

AI Adoption & Governance

Are you ready to deploy an AI agent? The 12-point operator readiness check

Regulatory & Compliance

The DORA Article 28 ICT register — what it must actually contain

Regulatory & Compliance

The EU AI Act deployer checklist — what an SME has to do before August 2026

Master Data Operations

The master data quality audit — the checks that actually matter

SAP / ERP Operations

The S/4HANA cutover checklist — the run sheet that survives 3 a.m.

Procurement & Vendor Management

The SaaS renewal negotiation checklist — terms that beat the discount

Essays

AI Adoption & Governance

Governance, not agents: the operating model most AI programs skip

Master Data Operations

Touchless ordering is a master-data achievement nobody sees

Procurement & Vendor Management

Vendor-side observations on how enterprise IT procurement actually works

SAP / ERP Operations

The cutover-window decision nobody makes early enough

Procurement & Vendor Management

Three IT procurement mistakes I've watched repeat from the vendor side

AI Adoption & Governance

Your AI agent will amplify your data problems, not fix them

Regulatory & Compliance

What supervisory authorities actually look for in DORA and EU AI Act compliance

SAP / ERP Operations

The S/4HANA deadline math most organizations calculate wrong

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SAP Cutover Comms Kit

Pre-cutover, go-live, hypercare and incident announcement templates — the comms templates a real cutover sends. Pay what you want.

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