Need senior ownership of the change?
You may have capable people and suppliers, but no one with the capacity to connect commercial priorities, technical decisions and delivery. Agree the responsibility that needs to be covered before deciding whether the engagement should be advisory, fractional or implementation-led.
Starting with Odoo?
Clarify the outcomes, understand your processes and data, and establish what standard functionality can do before deciding what needs to be built.
Already running it?
Understand what is working, where people are compensating for the system, and which changes would make a worthwhile difference.
Considering integration or AI?
Choose a bounded problem, establish a baseline and test the result. Make the operating cost, ownership and limitations visible before extending it.