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Governance, drift, and the cost of filtered reporting.

Independent perspective on SAP transformation governance — from the questions that prevent commitment errors, to the warning signals that demand intervention, to the deadlines that compress every choice.

The Watermelon Reporting Problem

When programme reporting stays green while operational pressure has already turned red underneath.
“Green on the outside, red on the inside. The watermelon pattern is one of the most consistent governance failure modes in enterprise transformation — and one of the most expensive to recover from once it surfaces at board level.”
Decision Zone

Before the contract is signed.

The questions that prevent commitment errors and the structural conflict at the heart of how SAP transformations are normally governed.
3 Articles
Delivery Zone

While the programme is in flight.

How to read past the executive summary: the indicators, illusions, and reporting mechanics that hide programme drift behind unbroken green.
3 Articles
Governance
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The Watermelon Reporting Problem

When programme reporting stays green while operational pressure has already turned red underneath. As an SAP programme moves into delivery and testing, the risk profile changes. The SI’s focus narrows…
Intervention Zone

When passive oversight is no longer enough.

Recognising the warning signals, quantifying the drift, and making the hardest call in the transformation lifecycle; whether to pause a go-live the evidence does not support.
3 Articles
SAP ECC Migration

The 2027 deadline closes the governance window.

Why ECC migration is a board-level decision not an IT milestone and what compounds when the planning conversation gets delayed.
2 Articles

Start a conversation

If any of this is recognisable, the conversation is worth having.

A first conversation with TRC tends not to begin with discovery questions. Most of the patterns are already recognisable from the read.