Project Management


Commercial Momentum
Reading Time: 11 minutesIntroduction: Why Commercial Momentum Is the Untapped Competitive Advantage Most organisations don’t fail because they lack strategy, talent, or ambition. They fail because they lose commercial momentum or didn’t have momentum in the first place. Momentum is the force that turns intent into impact. It is the difference between teams [...]

The A to Z of Commercial Momentum


Digital Handoffs
Reading Time: 5 minutesDigital Handoffs: The Delivery Paradox While digital projects celebrate on-time delivery, we find the real threat to success lies in the handoffs—the critical transitions between teams where intent is diluted, context is lost, and the promised business value quietly leaks away. 70% of digital transformations fail to meet their objectives [...]

Digital Handoffs: Where Value is Lost


Stakeholder Engagement
Reading Time: 4 minutesIntroduction: Beyond the Boardroom: The Strategic Shift Stakeholder engagement has become one of the most misused phrases in modern leadership. For many organisations, it still means investor updates, community statements, and polite Q&A sessions at annual meetings. The goal is often compliance, not connection. But the world has changed. Stakeholders [...]

Shifting Stakeholder Engagement for Real Alignment



Why Digital Projects Fail
Reading Time: 4 minutesA practical guide for business and project leaders on spotting the warning signs in digital projects — and taking back control before it’s too late. The Silent Slide into Failure: Five Early Warnings That Digital Projects are Dying Slowly Digital projects rarely crash and burn in fireballs. More often, they [...]

Why Digital Projects Fail (and How to Fix Them Before ...


Project Rescue
Reading Time: 9 minutesWhen projects derail and when to move into Project Rescue Every leader has faced it: the project that starts with promise, burns through months of effort, and then stalls. Deadlines slip, costs spiral, and meetings feel more like crisis briefings than progress updates. In the private sector, that might be [...]

The A to Z of Project Rescue


Making Digital Transformations Stick
Reading Time: 6 minutesContinuous Improvement Beyond Go-Live The Myth of “Finished” In the final blog of the series, we dive into how to ensure that your digital transformations stick. In the first two blogs of this series, we looked at how to craft a digital transformation vision that inspires, and how to lead [...]

Making Digital Transformations Stick



Purpose-driven Projects
Reading Time: 9 minutesPurpose-Driven Projects – Yes the what and the how are important, but what’s often missing is the why. Most organisations measure project success with the familiar three: time, cost, and scope (sometimes quality is added too). Deliver to budget, hit the dates, and stay within scope — and on paper, [...]

Purpose-Driven Projects: Why Mission Matters as Much as Milestones


Milestones, Inch Pebbles, Project Management
Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s fair to say that I’ve been involved in my fair share of projects during my career. Some have been market changing product launches or operational transformations and some have been must do, dull, but important projects. Others have been misguided, bonkers and failed projects. I’ve learnt from each and [...]

Effective Projects – Inch Pebbles, Milestones and Tombstones