Technology Transformation Risk

How Much Technology Risk Is Actually in Your Transformation?

A free, guided assessment that reads the technology side of your transformation specifically — architecture clarity, systems complexity, vendor alignment — and tells you where the real exposure sits.

Retail technology transformations rarely fail because of the technology itself. They fail because the target architecture was never fully agreed, because vendor accountability was fragmented across too many parties, or because systems complexity was underestimated going in. This assessment reads those specific technology-risk dimensions — not a generic maturity model — and gives you a grounded, decision-oriented result: proceed, diagnose, stabilize, or lead.

Technology risk is worth assessing when...

You're integrating, replacing or rationalizing systems — POS, OMS, ERP — and the target architecture isn't fully settled
Multiple vendors are involved and accountability for the overall outcome is unclear
Systems complexity feels higher than the original scope suggested, and nobody has re-baselined the estimate
You're heading into (or recovering from) an M&A carve-out or integration that touches shared systems
You want an independent, non-vendor read before committing further budget to a platform decision

What the assessment reads

01

Architecture and systems complexity

How clear the target architecture actually is, and how many systems and integrations the transformation genuinely touches.

02

Vendor alignment

Whether accountability for the outcome is genuinely shared and coordinated, or fragmented across parties with no single owner.

03

A grounded next step

The result names the specific technology exposure driving the risk — not just a number — and recommends what to do about it.

Trusted by teams at

RONALowe's CanadaGroupe DynamiteCegid

$50M+

Largest program value led

~50

Engagements delivered

1,000+

Vendors & installers coordinated

100%

EBITDA protected through a $50M+ divestiture

Selected Engagements

Here's what that's looked like in practice

RONA

Multi-Vendor Technology Divestiture

Led the technology separation for a $50M+ divestiture — roughly 100 TSAs and 50+ systems — closing on a strict contractual deadline while protecting the business unit being carved out.

100%

EBITDA protected

Groupe Dynamite

E-Commerce & OMS Modernization

Delivered a new Salesforce e-commerce platform in under 6 months with no major incidents, then rolled out a Manhattan OMS that turned closed stores into mini distribution centers during COVID.

320

stores enabled for ship-from-store

Cegid

~50 Luxury & Retail Engagements

Deployed Cegid's ERP/POS suite across dozens of luxury, fashion and hardware brands — including Hermès, Chanel and Longchamp — spanning ERP, digital and in-store transformation.

10–200

people per engagement team

Get a read on your technology risk

Free, 5–7 minutes, focused specifically on architecture, systems and vendor risk.