Business-Side ERP Readiness & Recovery · Private Capital Backed Companies
Your system integrator gets the technology ready. Transformativa helps ensure your portfolio company can operate, close, and report from Day 1.
Business-side ERP readiness, recovery, and stabilization for private capital backed companies.
The Problem
For private capital backed companies, ERP is a critical operating and financial source of truth. Yet ERP implementations are often led primarily through the technology lens.
The system integrator configures and deploys the platform — but the business still has to be ready to operate through it. Processes need owners. Data needs to reconcile. Controls need to work. Users need to complete real transactions. Finance needs to close the books. Leadership needs reliable reporting. And the organization needs to know exactly what happens on day one.
When that business layer is missing, an ERP can be technically ready while the company is not. ERP disruption doesn't stop with the ERP. It can affect orders, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, payroll, cash, financial close, reporting, and management visibility.
Transformativa closes that gap.
How We Engage
Whether you're approaching go-live, in the middle of one, or trying to recover from one — there's a way to engage.
"We go live in 90 days and I'm not sure the business is actually ready."
A focused assessment of business readiness across process, data, controls, user acceptance testing, cutover, reporting, and day-one operations.
2–3 weeks · Executive readiness view · Prioritized action plan
Private equity-backed industrial company — established business readiness visibility across finance, data, user acceptance testing, reporting, and cutover ahead of ERP go-live.
Identify gaps early"The system is live but the business can't operate. We need help now."
Senior business-side transformation leadership to stabilize a troubled implementation. Establish decision rights, reconnect technology to operations, rebuild confidence with the board, and create a credible path forward.
Global enterprise transformation — led recovery and orchestration across complex SAP, Oracle, and Dynamics environments supporting 1,500+ users across the US, Europe, and APAC.
Recover the implementation"We went live but the business isn't running on the system the way we expected."
Operational stabilization and adoption leadership after go-live — process adherence, data quality, reporting accuracy, and the sustained change needed to actually run the business on the new system.
Regional bank — led enterprise technology stabilization efforts across Finance and Technology.
Restore operational controlTake the 10-question ERP Business Readiness Health Check. Get an immediate read on where your gaps are before they surface at go-live.
Take the Health Check →Engagement Structure
No two ERP challenges arrive in the same condition. Some need a fast, defined assessment. Others need hands-on recovery leadership for several months. And sometimes the need is targeted executive support at a critical moment. The engagement is structured around the problem, the level of intervention required, and the outcome we need to achieve.
For a clearly defined problem with a specific outcome and timeline.
For situations that require sustained senior leadership through readiness, recovery, or stabilization.
For focused executive support, independent challenge, decision support, or a specific intervention.
The structure follows the problem. Not the other way around.
How I Work
Sometimes you need the senior operator who would actually lead the work.
"Your system integrator gets the system ready. We get the business ready to run on it."
When an ERP implementation is off track, I come in directly as an independent transformation leader to assess what is actually happening, stabilize the program, establish decision rights and accountability, reconnect the technology implementation to the business, and build a credible path to go live.
No large team assembled around me. No layers between the sponsor and the person accountable for the work. No traditional consulting-firm overhead.
Senior transformation leadership, directly engaged.
This also solves a question private equity operating partners often ask: why wouldn't we just call the system integrator? Because the system integrator is responsible for getting the system ready. Someone has to own the business side — process, people, controls, data, readiness, cutover, reporting, and stabilization. That's the gap Transformativa fills.
Who This Is For
If any of these sound familiar, you're in the right place.
ERP Business Readiness
Ten questions. Immediate results. No email required.
About
Natalie Dudina is a senior transformation executive with 20+ years of experience leading implementations, operational recoveries, and business readiness programs for large, complex organizations.
Her background spans technology, digital transformation, and enterprise operations — with a focus on the business side of major system changes: the process, people, controls, data, and organizational readiness that determines whether a company can actually run on its new platform.
Transformativa was built from the recognition that most ERP failures aren't technology failures. They're business readiness failures. And that the gap between "the system is ready" and "the company is ready" is exactly where PE-backed portfolio companies are most exposed.
"Most ERP failures aren't technology failures. They're business readiness failures. The system goes live. The business doesn't."— Natalie Dudina, Founder, Transformativa
A 30-minute conversation is the fastest way to determine whether there's a fit and what the right engagement looks like.
No RFP required. No large team on the other end. Just a senior conversation about what's actually going on.