For the CEO and COO
Your organization probably has more software opportunities than development capacity.
The constraint is not strategic imagination. It is throughput between a decision and working software in the hands of a real user.
The move
What would your organization build if software were no longer the constraint?
- Name the problem
- Most executive teams can name the missing system in under a minute. That is where to start — not with a transformation program.
- Require evidence, not conviction
- Give one important problem to a small team and require working software as the proof point.
- Keep the option open
- A reversible first decision means the organization can learn what is now possible without a defining commitment.
Questions to ask now
Useful questions to put to your own organization — and to any provider.
- 01
Which missing capability would materially change the operating picture if it were no longer stuck on the roadmap?
- 02
Where is the organization paying for a system it decided not to build?
- 03
What evidence would justify a larger commitment — and what would justify stopping?
- 04
Which decisions are being made without the system that would inform them?
- 05
Where would additional execution capacity matter most across the portfolio?