Case studies, deep-dives, and industry analysis drawn from 25 years of mid-market project rescues. Content organized by the failure patterns most likely to affect your type of project.
ERP failures are the most expensive and predictable crises in mid-market operations. The technology usually works. The organizational dynamics usually don’t.
Three months behind and slipping. The question isn’t whether it can be saved. It’s whether you’re fixing the right things.
CRM implementations fail to meet their original objectives at a rate of 50–65%. One of the most persistent failure patterns in enterprise software. The problem is almost never the software.
When a CRM fails, the software takes the blame. The software is rarely the problem.
Seventy to ninety percent of mergers fail to deliver their intended value. The value doesn’t disappear in the boardroom. It disappears in the integration.
Culture clash is the most cited reason M&A integration fails. It’s also the least actionable. Because it’s usually a symptom, not a cause.
Digital transformation has a persistent completion-rate problem. The conventional explanations cycle through the same factors. None of them is the root cause.
Professional services firms face a structural version of the Orphaned Owner pattern. It rarely gets named, because naming it feels like criticizing the client.
AI pilots are easy to launch and hard to scale. Most stall for the same reason every other transformation stalls: the human dynamics were never addressed.
Factory automation upgrades promise efficiency gains that rarely show up on schedule. The equipment usually works. The rollout onto the floor usually doesn’t.
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