Making Value Unavoidable
Value doesn’t fail in the spreadsheet. It fails in the operating model.
Lived experience at the messy middle between strategy and execution. These insights reflect my experience leading large-scale transformations across industries — informed by data, shaped by practice, and grounded in the realities of how organizations actually work.
Value doesn’t fail in the spreadsheet. It fails in the operating model.
Most organizations don’t lose value by accident; their operating model gives it nowhere to live.
Value doesn’t fail in the spreadsheet — it fails in the operating model.
Extraordinary AI investment, limited output. The real unlock isn’t more code — it’s ownership, cadence, and an operating model ready for speed. Get alignment right, then accelerate.
The final stage of transformation: embedding value so deeply into systems and rhythms that it stops needing a name — it simply becomes how the organizsation works.
Security and compliance aren’t brakes — they’re the steering. Designed as capabilities, they make transformation faster, safer, and sustainable.
How to design trust, value, and scale milestones that turn transformation from a plan into visible proof — and prevent drift before it starts.
As CEOs shorten their ROI horizon to 12–36 months, the gap between sponsorship and adoption has become the decisive space for value realization.
Most transformations start with a roadmap and end with a slide deck. This piece explores how real value is engineered early—through sponsorship, trust, and the right milestones—long before the go-live banners appear.