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title: Inflective Insights | Enterprise Transformation Leadership | Tom Hensler
description: "Tom Hensler is the Founder and Senior Principal of Inflective, Inc., bringing more than 30 years of experience leading complex enterprise transformations.\n\nA former PricewaterhouseCoopers partner and international technology executive, Tom has led major SAP, Oracle, and enterprise transformation initiatives across multiple industries, including manufacturing, technology, financial services, and hospitality.\n\nHis experience spans programs involving millions of person-hours and significant operational and financial risk. He developed Inflective's Assert™ Transformation Certainty approach to help organizations establish evidence-based confidence in business readiness and achieve more predictable transformation outcomes.\n\nTom holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Lehigh University."
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## [The ERP Go/No-Go Decision: Can You Do a Day's Worth of Business in a Day?](https://inflective.com/blog/erp-go-no-go-decision-business-readiness)

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