The Year Before The Project
By the time the project formally starts, the governance story is already partly written. The budget has been approved. The sponsor has been identified. The timeline has been communicated, internally and sometimes externally. The problem the program exists to solve has been framed in terms that different executives understand differently. The trade-offs that will be […]
The Transformation Trap
“This isn’t what we approved.” Most executives who have lived through a large ERP program remember the moment that thought arrived. The project in front of them stopped resembling the project they originally funded. What had been described as a finance upgrade, a reporting initiative, a platform refresh, or a like-for-like system replacement had quietly […]