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What put this on your desk?

The question lands on your sponsor’s desk. The answer lands on yours. Most transformations start with an event: a new leader, a deal, a finding, a funding decision. Start from yours, and see what you will be asked to produce and whose work it depends on.

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Three colleagues working through an end-to-end process map at a shared table
The event
It lands on one desk.
A new leader, a deal or a finding sends one executive a question that has to be answered.
The problem
The answer sits between functions.
It depends on work several teams share, and no single team owns.
The capability
Your team learns to give it.
Foundation teaches the read on a shared case. The Practitioner Intensive applies it to yours.
Start from your situation

Your sponsor gets the question. You get asked for the answer.

Pick the event closest to yours. The board shows who asks, what lands on you, and which functions the answer depends on.

CEOEnterprise
CFOFinance
CSOStrategy
COOOperations
CTOTechnology
CHROPeople
BU PRES.Business unit
STEERCOTransformation
PMODelivery
The CEO asks“Which of the programs we inherited make the new strategy executable?”
Which programs the new strategy still needs
What each program is worth, on evidence
The question lands on one desk. The answer depends on two more.a seam no single team owns
What you’ll be asked for

A view of which inherited programs the new strategy still needs, and why.

What usually isn’t in place

The reasons behind the inherited programs left with the last leader.

PEX Network, CTrO Benchmark 2027: many leaders describe portfolios of separate projects with no unifying strategic narrative or enterprise governance.

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Why it is no longer optional
The event sets the deadline. The question arrives before the answer is ready.

A new leader, a deal or a finding gives the enterprise weeks, not quarters, to show what the transformation will change. The answer depends on work several functions share, and the teams that carry it have to read it the same way.

88%
of business transformations fail to achieve their original ambitions.
Bain & Company, 2024
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