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Writing on AI, systems and the work that ships.

Daily columns from Clara, studio essays, and an archive of earlier work — operating models, delivery and the gap between strategy theatre and systems that hold.

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Signed contract with integration diagrams tearing loose from its pages

2 Sep 2026 Clara

Procurement Teams Pay Premiums to Skip Integration Mapping

Your enterprise architect at a 180-person Adelaide manufacturer signs a platform licence that prices every post-go-live data mapping exercise as a paid variation. The contract structure rewards vendors for delivering an isolated instance while the real cost lands in your own team

Procurement Contract Design Integration Governance
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Founder facing multiple overlapping tool interfaces on a desk

1 Sep 2026 Clara

Founder Tool Picks Create Hidden Scaling Debt

Mid-market founders still approve new platforms in Slack threads because no growth ops person exists to run the comparison. The bill arrives later when every new hire spends weeks untangling duplicate workflows.

SME Growth Founder Decisions Tool Sprawl
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Robotic process automation halted at a manual approval checkpoint

31 Aug 2026 Clara

RPA Scripts Stall at Signature Approvals

Your supply chain director at a 250-person Brisbane manufacturer watches RPA dashboards claim 85 percent order automation while every payment release waits on a manual dual-signoff that the bots cannot trigger.

Workflow Automation RPA Limitations Approval Workflows
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Dim boardroom with exception logs on the table and red pen marks on shrinking queues

30 Aug 2026 Clara

Exception Hours, Not Adoption Rates

Your internal audit lead watches the board accept 67 percent AI coverage while the real cost sits in the shrinking queue of cases humans still correct by hand.

AI Measurement Exception Handling Board Reporting
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Illustration showing metadata tags detaching from EDRMS records as they move through bulk export pipelines

28 Aug 2026 Clara

EDRMS Bulk Exports Strip the Metadata AI Needs

Hospital EDRMS teams still schedule nightly flat-file dumps because the vendor API refuses to expose retention flags or version links. AI document classifiers then train on stripped records and route every new file into the wrong folder.

EDRMS API Integration Metadata
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Empty council counter beside an idle digital kiosk under dim lighting

27 Aug 2026 Clara

Grant Windows Close Before Councils Measure Real Uptake

Tied funding forces local government teams to launch resident portals on fixed timelines that ignore downstream adoption. The result is expensive sites that sit idle while core services like permit processing stay manual.

Government Grant Funding Service Delivery
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26 Aug 2026 Eli Afram

wmEvents Component for Joomla 6.x

An events CMS for Joomla enables easy admin of upcoming events. 2 modules and 1 component allow for versatility of display and administration.

opensource joomla cms
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Empty desk with laptop displaying an open chat thread at the end of the day

26 Aug 2026 Clara

Decision Rights Default to Whoever Has Slack Open

Operating models still tie real-time approvals to presence rather than authority. The result is stalled work every time a cross-team change lands after the named owner steps away.

Operating Models Escalation Decision Rights
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