This talk explores the hidden front-end of change: how initiatives are committed to, how uncertainty is suppressed rather than surfaced, and how governance commonly arrives too late to be useful.
Alan introduces a practical lens on decision quality, reframing governance as sense-making rather than control, and inviting leaders to examine the pace and quality of decision making in complex organisations, where clear information is at a premium.
The audience should expect to leave with a clearer understanding of how early decisions shape delivery outcomes, why teams are often set up to fail through reasonable leadership behaviour, and what it really means to create the conditions for success rather than just demanding it.
Views: 16 | Enquiries: 0I have over a decade of Project Delivery experience and many years of executive decision support. Although my formal training centres around P3M, I am truly in the business of enabling strategic decision-making in complex organisations.
I spent many years contracting and consulting across organisations where large scale change and transformation is initiated with grand vision, but no reasonable chance of success. Having been parachuted into many floundering projects to draw them out of the quagmire, I came to realise that these activities could have succeeded had they had an effective front end, a clear requirement and organisational backing.
The decision around priority, risk, sponsorship and value, was often made quietly, in a closed room, and without all of the relevant information available within the organisation.
I focus on enabling senior leaders to make better, more informed, decisions which set the conditions for success in a complex and dynamic global environment.
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