Transformation Governance

Is Governance Actually Working, or Just Meeting?

A free, guided assessment that reads specifically whether your transformation's governance is a real decision-making forum — or whether decisions are quietly stalling somewhere no one is tracking.

Governance failure rarely looks dramatic while it's happening. Meetings still happen, status reports still go out — but decisions quietly stop getting made, escalation starts compensating for unclear ownership, and by the time it's visible, it's already expensive. This assessment reads governance directly — decision ownership, executive alignment, escalation patterns — and treats "I don't know who owns that" as the risk signal it actually is, not a neutral answer.

Governance is worth assessing when...

Issues get raised in steering committee but the same ones keep coming back unresolved
You're not fully sure who has final decision authority when workstreams or vendors disagree
Escalation is happening more often than it should, as if it's compensating for something structural
Executive sponsors and the delivery team would tell noticeably different stories if asked for a status update today
You're heading into a complex, multi-stakeholder initiative and want governance right from the start, not retrofitted later

What the assessment reads

01

Decision ownership

Whether there is a genuinely accountable owner for the decisions that matter — not just a RACI chart that says so on paper.

02

Unknowns treated as signal

When a governance answer comes back "I don't know," the assessment treats that uncertainty itself as a risk indicator, not a neutral non-answer.

03

A grounded next step

The result names the specific governance gap driving the risk and recommends what to do about it — not a generic maturity score.

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

See where governance actually stands

Free, 5–7 minutes, built specifically to read decision ownership and executive alignment.