When to Pause a Go-Live: The Hardest Decision in the Intervention Zone
The hardest decision in enterprise transformation is not whether to start a programme. It is whether to delay one that has already announced its go-live date. By the time a board is openly considering a pause, the cost of pausing feels enormous. Marketing has been told. The business has been prepared. Suppliers have been re-papered. […]
The Cost of Not Knowing: What an Independent 30-Day Read Buys You
By the time a board commissions an independent intervention, the average SAP programme has already been drifting for four to seven months. The cost of that drift — in defects accumulating, in scope quietly slipping, in milestone payments triggered against work that has not been done — is almost always materially larger than the cost […]
The 6 Warning Signals That Demand Independent Oversight
If your SAP programme is missing milestones, the time for passive oversight has passed. You need intervention. The history of enterprise ERP is littered with catastrophic failures. When Revlon went live with their SAP system, they lost $64M in sales because they could not fulfil orders. When Zimmer Biomet went live, minor integration issues compounded […]