Author: Stuart Robb

Stuart Robb is Executive Vice President, Europe, with over 25 years of experience delivering technology-enabled business transformations for organizations ranging from SMEs to FTSE 100 and S&P 500 companies. His industry background spans aviation, retail banking, manufacturing, healthcare, food and agriculture, publishing, real estate, and technology, with more than a decade focused on supporting private equity transactions. Stuart has advised on complex acquisitions, separations, and carve-outs, including serving as Technology Transaction Advisor for Montagu Private Equity, and has been accountable for major ERP, HCM, and CRM implementations at organizations such as Miraclon, Janes Defence Weekly, and Capita ESS. His core expertise includes finance, target operating model design, cost reduction, and large-scale programme management, with hands-on experience across platforms such as SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Infor, MRI, and Agresso.

The State of Digital Transformation in Europe: A View from the Ground

If you’re leading a digital transformation in Europe right now, you’re under pressure from every direction: vendors pushing cloud, boards pushing cost control, regulators pushing new obligations, and the market pushing speed. I spend most of my time inside that tension, working with private equity-backed groups, multinationals, and mid-market firms across the UK and EU, […]

Comment Optimiser Votre Stratégie Numérique

Dans le monde actuel axé sur la technologie, il n’y a pas d’entreprise s’il n’y a pas de stratégie digitale. Avec 95% des processus dépendant de la technologie, il est plus important que jamais de s’assurer que votre architecture digitale est optimisée. C’est peut-être le facteur qui vous distingue dans votre secteur et qui vous […]

Why “Vanilla ERP” Doesn’t (and Can’t) Exist

Whenever I hear a client tell me “we just want a vanilla, out-of-the-box solution”, my heart sinks. I know that I now have the unenviable task of gently persuading the client that the term really doesn’t exist and that it’s an ERP industry hoax, just like “accelerators” and “standard process models.” Some clients get it, […]