Insights

Research-based perspectives on strategy, operations, regulation, systems and risk.

€20–27bn

The EU’s own estimate of administrative savings from digitising one set of freight documents, 2020–2040.

Source: European Commission impact assessment, Regulation (EU) 2020/1056

Regulation

Why compliance programmes should be run as operating capabilities, not projects.

26%

of executives say their last transformation succeeded and the gains lasted.

Source: McKinsey Global Survey, 1,946 executives

Operations

A method for finding the three decisions that reset cost and capacity.

45%

Average budget overrun on large IT projects. They also deliver 56% less value than planned.

Source: McKinsey and University of Oxford, 5,400 projects

Digital & Systems

How to sequence systems work so the operation changes first and the software second.

40%+

of one year’s profit: what the average company can expect to lose to supply-chain disruption once a decade.

Source: McKinsey Global Institute, 325 companies, 13 industries

Risk

Mapping exposure across suppliers, systems and regulators.

~60%

of a strategy’s potential value is all most companies realise.

Source: Mankins and Steele, Harvard Business Review

Strategy

Deciding what the company will stop doing, and when.

9 in 10

megaprojects run over budget. Overruns of 50% are common.

Source: Flyvbjerg, University of Oxford

Public Sector

Setting ownership and decision rights before the first contract is signed.