Designed
to Drift
You can sense a program drifting long before anyone can prove it. This book gives you the proof.
The book also introduces Program Integrity, a practical operating discipline for testing whether assumptions, decisions, reporting, governance, and execution reality still line up.
Program Drift, decision capacity, false closure, execution anchoring, and Program Integrity: the missing discipline for protecting coherence when delivery pressure rises.
A practical guide to detecting drift, realigning early, and protecting program outcomes.
Bain finds that only 12% of business transformations achieve their original ambitions. The other 88% fall short — and few fail loudly. Most just drift.
Who it is for
Transformation sponsors, SAP delivery executives, PMO leaders, assurance teams, and advisory partners who need clearer control language.
What it introduces
Program Drift, decision capacity, false closure, execution anchoring, and Program Integrity: the missing discipline for protecting coherence when delivery pressure rises.
What it helps you do
Read a program's real health, not the version in the deck. Challenge a green status without sounding alarmist. Pull governance back to delivery reality before recovery gets expensive.
Inside the book.
The book explains how governance can remain visible while control quietly decays. On programs of this size, the gap between looking in control and being in control is measured in months and millions. This book shows you how to close it.
