The Perils of a ‘Good News Only’ Culture in Core Platform Projects
In core platform projects, a good news culture can pose challenges for sponsors and leaders. Now consider this. Does your organisation only celebrate success?
Jumping the Watermelon: What Executives Need from the PMO
As transformation portfolios grow more complex, PMOs must connect delivery performance to investment outcomes.
The Stakeholder Map: What Governance Doesn’t Capture
Stakeholder maps give program leaders a useful view of formal authority, however informal influence can shift stakeholder positions.
Speaking Truth to Power: The Challenges of a “Good News” Culture
Good governance depends on leaders having an accurate view of delivery, yet difficult messages are often softened or filtered before they arrive.
The Assurance Gap: Is AI Outpacing Traditional Governance?
AI is reshaping transformation and exposing gaps in assurance approaches built for a different delivery environment.
The Portfolio Blindspot: Why Programs Underestimate Integration and Dependency Risk
Program roadmaps can look complete while missing the depdencies between workstreams that determine whether a program actually delivers.
Change by Degree: Not Every Initiative is Transformation
Transformation and process improvement aren't interchangeable, and confusing the two can create unnecessary complexity or leave real structural change unaddressed.
The Operational Proxy: Why Technology Alone Doesn’t Deliver Transformation
Technology alone rarely delivers transformation; real change depends on redesigning the operating model that sits around it.
The Future State Fallacy: Why Transformation Can’t Be Planned Like a Project
Transformation programmes can’t be planned with the same certainty as conventional projects as they typically operate under very different conditions.
The Delivery Environment: Why Transformation Succeeds or Fails on Behaviour
Strong governance and methodology can coexist with transformation programmes that still struggle under pressure due to behavioural conditions surrounding delivery.