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Practical writing for the people accountable for delivery — on why programmes drift, why reporting stays green, and what an independent read actually changes.

12 June 2026 · 6 min read

Why S/4HANA Transformations Fail. And What the Evidence Shows

The majority of S/4HANA programmes miss their targets on time, budget or quality. The evidence points to a governance gap rather than technical complexity — and five public failures show what that gap costs.

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1 June 2026 · 4 min read

The Top 10 Reasons Technology Programmes Don't Go to Plan

Two decades of complex programmes, and the same ten patterns repeat — from business cases nobody revisits to governance that reports rather than decides.

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15 May 2026 · 4 min read

When to Stop, Reset or Rescue a Technology Programme

Stopping a programme that has already consumed serious investment is the hardest call a technology leader makes. The failure is rarely the wrong choice — it is the right choice made six months too late.

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5 May 2026 · 3 min read

Delivery Assurance vs Programme Governance: What's the Difference

You already have a steering committee, a PMO and a risk register. The case for assurance on top rests on one structural fact: governance is part of the system it oversees.

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14 April 2026 · 3 min read

How to Challenge Technology Vendors

Your integrator is a commercial partner whose incentives are not yours. Challenging them without damaging the relationship is easier through an independent third party.

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31 March 2026 · 3 min read

Why CFOs Should Care About Technology Delivery Assurance

Technology spend has become material capital investment, not an operational line item. That changes what finance can reasonably take on trust.

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11 March 2026 · 4 min read

Why Technology Programmes Fail to Deliver Value (And What to Do About It)

The root causes of programme failure are well documented. The harder question is why they persist anyway — and what leaders can actually do about them.

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12 February 2026 · 3 min read

Why IT Programmes Report Green Until They Don't

Someone usually saw it coming. The signals were there; they just weren't reaching the right people in time.

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12 January 2026 · 3 min read

5 Signs Your Technology Programme Needs Delivery Assurance

Delivery risk builds gradually, not overnight. Five signals that suggest your reporting has stopped telling you what you need to know.

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1 December 2025 · 4 min read

How to Get Independent Visibility of a Failing ERP Implementation

ERP programmes keep consuming resource and reporting progress long after the warning signs appear. There is a window in which an honest view still changes the outcome.

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8 October 2025 · 4 min read

What CIOs Should Ask Before Trusting Their Programme Reporting

This isn't a question about the integrity of the people writing the reports. It's about the structural limits of how delivery information is gathered, filtered and presented.

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12 March 2025 · 4 min read

How to Build a Business Case for Independent Delivery Assurance

The value is usually intuitive to the CIO. The harder conversation is with the CFO — which is why the case starts with the cost of the problem, not the price of the engagement.

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3 December 2024 · 4 min read

What Is Delivery Assurance and When Do You Need It?

A term used loosely across the industry. What delivery assurance actually means in practice, how it differs from governance and audit, and when it earns its place.

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