Your strategic project is failing. Now what?

Decision frameworks, recovery playbooks, and diagnostic tools for the executives who own the outcome — not the people managing the Gantt chart.

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17%

of large IT projects threaten the company's existence

McKinsey, 5,400 projects

$150B

lost annually to failed projects in the US alone

PMI 2025

88%

of transformations fail to achieve their goals

Bain & Company

50%

of projects globally succeed

PMI 2025

What we cover

Every article is written for the person who signs the check, not the person who updates the status report.

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Project Rescue

The kill/rescue/restructure decision framework. First 48 hours of a crisis. When to bring in outside help. What recovery actually costs versus letting it burn.

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ERP Recovery

Post-failure triage for SAP, Oracle, and Workday implementations. Cost-benefit analysis for rescue versus restart. Organizational change fatigue after repeated failures.

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Digital Transformation Rescue

What to do after the transformation stalls. Financial recovery and board communication. Vendor accountability when things go wrong.

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Government IT Turnaround

Only 6.4% of large federal IT projects succeed. Diagnostic playbooks, stakeholder navigation, and case studies from the public sector.

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Post-Merger Integration

When the integration is failing and synergies are evaporating. Talent retention, value recovery, and board communication during M&A crisis.

Built for executives, not practitioners

If your title includes any of these words, this site is for you.

CIO / CTO Your board is asking hard questions about a project that's bleeding money. You need a recovery plan you can defend.
VP of Engineering / IT The team is demoralized, the timeline is fiction, and you're deciding whether to rescue or replace.
Program Director You inherited a troubled portfolio and need to triage fast. Which projects get saved and which get cut?
CFO / COO The sunk cost is real, and killing the project means crystallizing the loss. You need the financial framework to decide.