Notes from the consulting floor
Short writing on the work itself: what we see when transformations meet the real organization, why frameworks misfire, what tends to actually move a number. Published when there’s something worth publishing.
Field notes
The standard you cannot see is not a standard
A site moves a priority threshold by one notch for sound local reasons. Three years later every site has its own, and the staffing model built…
Read moreMost program delay is a queue of unmade decisions
On large programs the binding constraint is how long work waits for an answer, not how fast the work gets done. Two numbers make that queue…
Read moreWhy the AI pilot works and the rollout doesn’t
Most enterprise AI pilots succeed and most rollouts stall. The gap is rarely the model -- it is that nobody owned the change to how the…
Read moreWhy most digital transformations fail at the third quarter
The remarkably consistent failure point in the lifecycle of a digital transformation programme — what causes it, what survivors share, and how to run a structural…
Read moreThe portfolio review that actually changes capital allocation
Why most quarterly portfolio reviews change nothing — and the structural redesign that turns them into real capital reallocation forums.
Read moreWhen stage-gate stops killing things, it stops being stage-gate
Most stage-gate processes do not fail because the criteria are wrong. They fail because nobody actually kills anything at the gate. A 30-minute diagnostic and three…
Read moreWhat AI agents actually change about the consulting engagement
A field note on where enterprise AI agents are paying for themselves in 2026 — and three places they are quietly losing money.
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