The Upshift

The Upshift

From Hype to Impact: Building Tech Programmes That Actually Deliver

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Roman Khromin
Dec 21, 2025
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Digital transformation is saturated with promise. AI, cloud platforms, data lakes, digital twins — the hype cycles move faster than most businesses can respond. Yet for many executive teams, this noise obscures a far more pressing reality: the growing gap between what was promised and what is actually delivered. Tech programmes, often launched with ambition and executive fanfare, regularly underperform, stall, or haemorrhage value. Why?

Because slideware isn’t strategy. Because transformation isn’t a technology problem — it’s a value realisation challenge.

From Hype to Impact: Building Tech Programmes That Actually Deliver

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