Where Is The Miracle In The Latest ESN Transition Plan?
20th August 2026
In Sidney Harris’s famous 1977 cartoon, two scientists stand in front of a blackboard covered in equations. Between one set...
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Strategy Execution
We’ve Been Saying This for Years
19th August 2026
We have just finished presenting the findings of a delivery system assessment. For several weeks, we have been establishing the real...
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Standing Outside the Operating Theatre with a Clipboard
27th July 2026
In my previous article, I described a company preparing for a major transformation whose executive team wanted its program director...
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The Transformation Was Broken Before the Program Began
20th July 2026
I can almost guarantee you have seen this mistake before. The Question I once asked an executive team a simple question. “What do...
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Recognition Isn’t Enough
20th July 2026
In my previous article, The Numbers Never Tell the Whole Story, I argued that major programs begin telling their story...
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The Numbers Never Tell the Whole Story
14th July 2026
The autopsy of a troubled program is rarely surprising. The surprise is how much of it was visible while the patient...
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The Execution Threshold: Is Your Organisation Set Up To Deliver This Program?
9th July 2026
The Question For Senior Teams Are we about to approve, or do we already have, a program that our organisation is...
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Putting “AI” on the Door Changes Nothing
12th June 2026
Every time a major technology shift arrives, perfectly normal companies suddenly start persuading themselves they are no longer what they...
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Most Large Programs Trigger Two Dangerous Management Approaches
29th May 2026
One of the balancing acts in large-scale program leadership is avoiding two equally dangerous management approaches. At one end sits fluffy...
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