A value creation model for transformation success.
75-80% of large transformations fail to deliver the value originally promised. Not because of one bad project, because value isn’t managed as a portfolio.
When every transformation competes for value
You’re funding more transformation, across more of the business, than you were two years ago. ERP modernisation, data and AI, customer experience, workforce change, the operating model itself; all moving through the portfolio at once, competing for the same capital, capacity and attention.
That competition is rarely managed as one decision. It’s dozens of decisions, made at different times, by different sponsors, against different business cases, and the pattern repeats. This eBook sets out the framework we use with clients to close that gap: the questions every CFO should be asking before capital is committed, while it’s deployed, and long after go-live.
What’s inside
- The three levels of value: why organisations that protect transformation value treat it as a portfolio, not a series of disconnected projects, and apply the same lens at the organisational, initiative and sustaining level.
- The solutions framework: a practical checklist for shaping or rescuing a transformation portfolio at each level.
- Sustaining value beyond go-live: what separates a tactical software upgrade from a genuinely sustainable transformation.
- The CFO Prompts: the exact questions to ask leadership before programs are approved, funded or accelerated.
- What sets successful portfolios apart: the traits shared by organisations that protect transformation value at scale.
Ready to see where your portfolio stands?
Portfolio-level transformation investment is one of the largest discretionary calls a CFO will make. This is the framework we use to help protect and grow it.

