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Why large IT programmes fail
BCG, McKinsey/Oxford and Standish show consistently: programmes fail on steering and coordination, rarely on the technology.
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Evidence-based Project Systems Research
How must project steering grow with complexity?
loumiTECH evaluates published studies, specialist literature and established models in a structured way and connects them with anonymised observations from project practice — clearly separated by the origin of the insight.
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Frameworks, reviews and insights.
Coordination Surface
Interfaces and coordination effort grow with the project architecture — not with the number of work packages.
ReadDecision Latency
Documented decisions still take effect too late, because an unmeasured latency lies between resolution and operational impact.
ReadConfiguration Drift
Project tools, processes and actual ways of working drift apart gradually — and with them the significance of the data.
ReadBuild-to-Run
Operational readiness emerges across the whole of delivery, not at go-live — and determines the realised value of a transformation.
ReadDecision-Driven Reporting
Reporting only becomes valuable when it changes decisions — not when it describes the past.
ReadIT programme steering: transitions
Complex projects fail at the transitions between business, contract, technology and finance — not at execution.
ReadModular Project Management Blueprint
Projects need no universal method, but a reasoned selection of steering building blocks.
ReadAll Practitioner Frameworks
Steering Quadrant, Four-Level Model and Modular Blueprint — an overview of the in-house steering models.
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