Why now
Everyone bought AI. Few changed the business.
of organisations attribute 5% or more of EBIT to AI. They are three times as likely to have redesigned how work gets done.
McKinsey, The State of AI, Aug 2026higher shareholder return for the 7.5% of companies built around AI, with 2.4× the revenue growth of laggards.
BCG, Applied AI Index, Sept 2026lower delivery cost is already assumed in new tech services contracts, up to 50% in some.
Bain, Technology Report, Sept 2026The gap is not the tool. It is a leadership team that decides what the firm becomes, and owns it.
Higher margins, new AI and IP revenue, people who stay, and a stronger position with SAP as Joule and the Autonomous Enterprise reach your clients.
Rivals quote below you on identical scope. Clients set your discount at every renewal. Your best people leave first.
The AI-First Mandate™
Grow faster than AI deflation shrinks you.
Replace the revenue AI takes
New AI services that grow faster than ERP projects and AMS shrink. See the evidence
Differentiate your firm
Strategic services your clients cannot buy from SAP: AI strategy, process redesign and automation, AI security and governance, your own industry agents.
Fund it from defense
Ring-fence the productivity savings before your next renewal round, and put them behind the new offers. Defense pays for offense.
What you leave with
- A signed Decision Sheet: every decision with an owner, a date, a done-criterion and a revenue impact.
- The 12-month Transformation Blueprint, challenged and signed, renewed every 12 months.
- A verdict on every revenue line: grow, protect, productize, redeploy or retire.
- 3 to 5 funded bets, each with one owner.
- An incentive check: every KPI, incentive and MBO tagged supports, neutral or works against, with the fixes signed.
- A delivery footprint decision: what stays offshore, what comes back, what agents take.
- Your first 90 days.
Your service portfolio
Every revenue line gets a verdict.
AI does not hit every line the same way. Before anyone talks about new offers, each line you sell today gets one of five moves.
Grow
Invest and sell more: the lines AI makes bigger.
For example: cloud subscriptions, new AI services, GROW packages.
Protect
Keep it, and sell what agents cannot: SAP judgment, accountability, the relationship.
For example: complex S/4HANA transformations.
Productize
Turn project work into a recurring service that improves every month.
For example: classic AMS becomes an AI-run subscription.
Redeploy
Move people and revenue to what clients already budget for next.
For example: from custom RICEFW to building agents.
Retire
Take the cash, stop investing, free your best people for growth.
For example: low-margin staff augmentation.
Then every new AI service must pass two tests before it gets a budget:
1Will a client pay for it?2Can we deliver it at margin?Your delivery footprint
Offshore was the only way to compete on price. Not anymore.
For 20 years, large and small SIs had little choice: labour arbitrage won the deal. When agents draft the specs, build RICEFW, write the tests and the documentation, distance stops being the cost advantage. Strategize puts the question on the table.
What stays offshore
Work where scale and follow-the-sun still win.
What comes back
Work closer to the client, onshore or nearshore, run with agentic platforms: more control, faster cycles, data where it should be.
What agents take
Build, test and documentation steps the platform runs, with a human reviewing every deliverable.
Stop adding legs to the caterpillar. Become the butterfly.
Most firms use AI to do the last 20 years faster. The Mandate reinvents the firm and its services: what to keep, what to cut, what to add.
Keep
- SAP domain expertise
- Client relationships
- Delivery rigour
- Your people, in redesigned roles
Cut
- Time and materials by default
- Custom everything, no reuse
- Waiting for SAP-supplied leads
- Roles designed before AI
Add
- AI services with clear ownership and governance
- Packaged IP and recurring revenue
- An AI service catalogue
- Incentives that reward reclaimed time and IP
How decisions get made
Challenged, then signed.
A strategy nobody challenged is a wish list. Four rules turn opinions into decisions the whole team stands behind.
Your Assess scores, KPIs and client data are on the table before anyone argues.
Each leader writes their view before the debate, so the loudest voice does not decide.
A named challenger attacks each bet: buyer, margin, delivery, risk. Weak bets die in the room, not in year two.
Debate is open. The decision is not. The CEO decides when the team splits, in the room.
Incentives, KPIs, MBOs
Hope is not a strategy. Compensation drives behaviour.
A new strategy on top of old incentives loses every time. Before anything is signed, every KPI, incentive and MBO is checked against the strategy: does it support it, or quietly work against it?
Only 2% of about 2,500 public companies reviewed tie executive incentives to AI. Pearl Meyer, via Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, Jun 2026.
Preparation, then two days. Strategy-grade input, decision-grade output.
Before anyone enters the room
Preparation
Confidential 1:1 interviews with each participant. Your KPIs over the last 3 years and current strategy. An outside-in market view and a competitive scan. Your proposed Blueprint from Assess, if you have one.
Day 1
Clarity
The market shift. The mirror: your Assess results and revenue at risk. A verdict on every revenue line, and on where you deliver from. Your ambition for Joule and the SAP Autonomous Enterprise. A co-written 3-year vision.
Day 2
Commitment
The seven decisions that separate an AI growth engine from a side project:
- Where do we play?
- What do we sell first?
- Separate or embedded?
- Build, buy or partner?
- How do we price?
- How do we govern it?
- Where do we deliver from?
Then 3 to 5 AI-first offers, each red-teamed. Incentives, KPIs and MBOs made congruent with the strategy. The 12-month roadmap. The One Domino: your first action and its owner. The Monday-morning communication plan.
What clients say
"We engaged TransformERP.AI to help translate Nagarro's global AI strategy into a concrete execution plan for our French SAP business."
Cyril GrabschCOO, Nagarro FranceWho is in the room.
CEO or managing partner, sales and presales lead, delivery lead, finance lead, people lead. The person who funds the plan attends both days.
It fits when
- The CEO is ready to lead, not react.
- You want new AI revenue, not only savings.
- The leadership team will make real decisions.
What it is not
- Not SAP product training.
- Not a Joule demo.
- Not a deck for the drawer.
Questions before the Mandate.
Can't we figure this out ourselves?
You can. The Mandate compresses months of internal debate into two days, with an outside-in view and a challenger you cannot get from inside.
Why two days, not two months?
The analysis is done before you arrive: interviews, KPIs, market scan, your Assess results. The two days are for debate and decisions only.
Do we need Assess first?
It helps, but it is not required. Without it, we build the mirror from your scorecard and the preparation interviews.
What happens after?
Activate, to put the plan to work with the people the rest of the firm copies.
Decide what your firm becomes.
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