Years ago, we made a decision that most of our competitors thought was crazy. We started blogging heavily. Not thought leadership pieces or gated whitepapers that required an email address, but actual technical content: how to configure posting groups, how to troubleshoot common errors, how to set up dimensions. This was the kind of content… Continue reading AI for the Over 40 – Week 37: Do We Still Need Consultants?
Category: AI & Copilot
What’s New in Business Central 2026 Wave 2: AI Gets Smarter—and Everyday Work Gets Easier
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2026 release wave 2, released in October, brings another substantial collection of new features and improvements. Microsoft’s release documentation covers everything from developer tooling and administration to localization, performance, and application enhancements. But if you’re a Business Central user, finance leader, manufacturer, distributor, or business decision-maker, you’ll want to know… Continue reading What’s New in Business Central 2026 Wave 2: AI Gets Smarter—and Everyday Work Gets Easier
AI for the Over 40 – Week 36: Do We Still Need Developers?
We launched an internal initiative called AI Activation, a group focused on activating AI for ourselves and our clients through lived experience. Thirty people signed up. Not everyone made the first meeting, but the level of voluntary interest tells you something: people are excited about what is possible and want to figure out how to… Continue reading AI for the Over 40 – Week 36: Do We Still Need Developers?
Before You Deploy AI, Tighten Up Your Business Central Permissions
AI adoption is accelerating quickly across Microsoft environments, from Microsoft Copilot to AI capabilities embedded directly into Dynamics 365 Business Central. But before organizations focus on prompts, productivity gains, and new use cases, they should address who already has access to what. That question matters because AI generally works within the permissions already assigned to… Continue reading Before You Deploy AI, Tighten Up Your Business Central Permissions
AI for the Over 40: Week 35 – Where AI Literacy Meets AI Fluency
In the last series blog, I wrote about the humbling experience of auditing my own AI skills, discovering that the most important techniques I had developed over 33 weeks had never been named, and that the simplest practical habits were the ones I still skipped. I walked away with a four-skill framework: Set the Stage,… Continue reading AI for the Over 40: Week 35 – Where AI Literacy Meets AI Fluency
AI for the Over 40 – Week 34: The Four Skills Behind Every AI Conversation
I am designing a hands-on AI workshop for business leaders. Ninety minutes. Most of the audience had never opened an AI tool. The goal: get them from zero to literate in the time it takes to watch a movie. My first instinct was that 33 weeks of documented AI learning gave me more than enough… Continue reading AI for the Over 40 – Week 34: The Four Skills Behind Every AI Conversation
AI for the Over 40 – Week 33: Why AI Won’t Replace ERP (And What It Actually Threatens)
One of our salespeople asked me to join an upcoming prospect meeting. The prospect had a question they wanted answered before moving forward with an ERP evaluation: Why should we invest in an ERP system if AI is going to replace it? My first reaction was to laugh. Not at the prospect, at the question. After 32 weeks of working intensively… Continue reading AI for the Over 40 – Week 33: Why AI Won’t Replace ERP (And What It Actually Threatens)
AI for the Over 40 – Week 32: The Below-the-Line Work AI Finally Makes Possible
A few weeks ago, an employee asked me a reasonable question: how could they know how many times they had submitted late time over the past year? We had been publishing weekly late and missing time reports for years. The data existed, dozens of spreadsheets sitting in my inbox as email attachments. I did not… Continue reading AI for the Over 40 – Week 32: The Below-the-Line Work AI Finally Makes Possible
AI for the Over 40 – Week 31: The Paradox of Expertise: What If You’re Hallucinating Too?
For most of my 23-year career as a Microsoft Business Central partner, the right answer really was Microsoft. When a client asked whether to build a custom feature inside Business Central or integrate with an outside platform, the answer was almost always build it in. That was not spin. On-premise integrations were limited, expensive, and… Continue reading AI for the Over 40 – Week 31: The Paradox of Expertise: What If You’re Hallucinating Too?
AI Over 40 Series – Week 30: AI Adoption Barriers: When Information Isn’t Enough
A few months ago, I suggested to my wife that we could use AI to help us communicate better with each other. It got shut down fast and hard. I want you to sit with that for a second. Not because the rejection surprised me. It did not, not really. What stayed with me was… Continue reading AI Over 40 Series – Week 30: AI Adoption Barriers: When Information Isn’t Enough