Before You Fund Another Quarter of an AI Pilot

Another quarter is a new investment decision. Here's the one page I'd want before approving it, and the three decisions a returning AI pilot should get.

Oct 16 • Roman Khromin

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September 2026

If your business case runs for five years, so should your transformation programme

The system implementation can finish after hypercare. Here is how to plan the transformation from the final year of the business case back to…

Sep 25 • Roman Khromin

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When every decision comes to you, the programme stops scaling

How to separate the decisions that need your judgement from those your team has learned to send upstairs

Sep 18 • Roman Khromin

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Your first 30 days as a programme director: what actually matters

What to find out before you change anything, what to leave alone, and how to tell whether the month worked.

Sep 11 • Roman Khromin

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What runs differently on day one

The plan says what will be built. Nothing says what the business will do differently on the Monday after go-live

Sep 4 • Roman Khromin

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August 2026

A committee is not an owner

The change had a plan, a budget and a workstream. It never had a name.

Aug 28 • Roman Khromin

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Competence needs an author

Clean delivery produces no evidence of itself. On a transformation, that is a governance defect rather than a personality problem.

Aug 21 • Roman Khromin

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The meeting before the meeting

The decision is usually settled before the room votes. The work is joining the settling.

Aug 14 • Roman Khromin

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July 2026

Technically correct, strategically useless

Why the best analysis fails when it's aimed at the wrong kind of problem, and how to read which one you're standing in.

Jul 31 • Roman Khromin

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Why most programme sponsors never actually sponsor

The arithmetic behind the empty chair, and the system for building the sponsor you were supposed to be given

Jul 24 • Roman Khromin

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Why steering committees fail 48 hours before they start

The one-page decision memo, the sponsor pre-brief sequence, and the three failure modes that survive even good preparation.

Jul 17 • Roman Khromin

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January 2026

RACI Tells You Who Does the Work. It Doesn't Tell You Who Drives It.

A practical guide to RACI, RASCI, DACI, RAPID, and MOCHA – and which one actually works for transformations

Jan 16 • Roman Khromin

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