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377- ERP Without the Nightmare w/James Dean Miller

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Technology, Tech News, Management, News, Business

549 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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ON THIS EPISODE ➤ The “wedding cake” framework for IT stack management and system lifecycle planning ➤ Why being embedded in every department’s presentation beats having your own slide deck ➤ The change management cycle: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance ➤ Time-Resources-Money triangle: the iron law of ERP implementation ➤ How to select the right ERP tier and avoid the “cement around your ankles” problem James Dean Miller has implemented over 600 ERP projects with a 93% on-time, on-budget success rate. As CIO of Migrate Ammunitions and former co-founder of CSS International, he’s led organizations through Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft...

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone back to dissecting popular teeners today talking with James Dean, Jim Miller,

0:15.1

Executive President, CIO, CTO. You have a lot of roles going on, but I think what may be more useful to the

0:23.9

youth that may continue on into the IT world or possibly even security is your background and

0:28.9

maybe just tell us a little story because stories are always great. And I think the best podcasts

0:33.0

are like a series of stories all strung together. So how did you get, and what do you prefer me to use as you're like where you are working?

0:42.6

Because you have some really cool stuff.

0:43.9

I mean, you've got like an ammunition company, which is awesome.

0:47.8

Then we've got cybersecurity.

0:49.8

I mean, what should we go with just all of the above?

0:53.7

So right now I am the CIO of Migra Ammunition, an ammunition's manufacturer for waterfowl and waterfowl hunting.

1:02.5

So ducks, geese, that kind of thing.

1:05.2

That's pretty niche.

1:06.5

That's pretty niche, actually.

1:08.1

Yeah, it is.

1:08.6

Well, there's actually three ammunition companies that I work with.

1:12.6

So one is for personal defense, the other's for military ammo, and the others for hunting.

1:17.6

As part of the manufacturing process, we do call quality control.

1:21.6

So we actually have our own small range behind the factory.

1:26.6

We also store the bulk of the gunpowder because it's

1:30.8

explosive outside of the factory. We only have enough in there for the production that we need

1:35.6

for that shift. But we do have our own live range where we measure muzzle velocity and then

1:42.6

the expansion of the pattern of the shot because we have

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