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Strategic Delivery Leadership

Seasoned program directors and delivery leads who carry execution end to end.

Strategic Delivery Leadership puts senior program directors and delivery leads into your transformation to run it, from mobilisation to go-live. They lead your teams and your vendors against one plan, make the calls a program needs, and stay accountable for the outcome. Transformativ's program leadership took a new core banking platform live in nine months, the world's fastest SAP core banking rollout at the time.

THE TRIGGERS

Four situations where delivery leadership changes the outcome

  1. 01

    A major program is about to launch, and nobody inside has run one at this scale.

  2. 02

    The program has stalled, missed milestones or lost the confidence of the board.

  3. 03

    Multiple vendors are delivering, and no one is accountable for the whole.

  4. 04

    A new executive needs a proven program director in place, fast.

WHAT WE DO

Leadership that carries a program from plan to go-live

Program direction

A senior program director who owns the plan, the budget, the risks and the decisions, and reports to your executive and board with one clear view.

Mobilisation at speed

Teams, partners, governance and cadence stood up quickly, so the program is delivering in weeks and the early releases carry real value.

Vendor and partner management

Implementation partners, integrators and specialist vendors held to one plan, one set of milestones and one definition of done.

Delivery method that fits the program

Agile, hybrid or staged delivery chosen for the work, with a short proof of concept to prove pace before the program scales.

Program recovery

A clear-eyed reset for programs in trouble: what is really happening, what to stop, what to resequence, and a plan the board can back.

Delivery leads across the program

Workstream and delivery leads for business, technology, data and change, working as one team under one program director.

HOW IT WORKS

How we lead a program

  1. 1
    ASSESS

    A fast, candid view of the program: scope, plan, team, vendors, risks and the business case.

  2. 2
    MOBILISE

    Leadership in place, governance and cadence running, and the plan sequenced around a value-dense first release.

  3. 3
    DELIVER

    Releases taken through build, test, rehearsal and cutover, with risks surfaced early and decisions made at the right level.

  4. 4
    EMBED

    The capability handed to your people, so the program keeps delivering after we step back.

HOW WE ENGAGE

Three ways to work with us on delivery leadership

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Advisory & Assessment

A short, independent review of a program's health and a reset plan, in two to six weeks.

Embedded Delivery

A program director and delivery leads who run the program with you for its full length.

Specialist Squads

Delivery leads added to your existing team where it needs more senior capacity.

Delivery leaders keep business and technology in step once the work starts, and our article on aligning technology with business strategy sets out the practices that help.

QUESTIONS

Common questions about delivery leadership

A program director owns the program's plan, budget, risks and decisions. They lead the workstreams and vendors against one plan, report to the executive and board, and are accountable for getting the program to go-live with its business case intact.

When a program is larger or riskier than anything your team has run, when it has stalled or lost the board's confidence, or when a new executive needs a proven leader in place quickly. An external director brings experience from programs of the same scale and can mobilise fast.

Start with a candid assessment of scope, plan, team, vendors and the business case. Then decide what to stop and what to resequence, reset governance and decision rights, and rebuild the plan around the work closest to delivering value, so the board can back a plan it believes.

Yes. We're not tied to any one vendor, so we lead your implementation partners and integrators against one plan and one set of outcomes, whoever they are.

Usually within weeks. We draw on our own principals and a vetted specialist network, so we can size the leadership team to the program, from a single program director to a full delivery leadership team.

NEXT STEP5 MINUTES

Know where your program stands before the next dollar goes in.