Forward Leaning Consulting

Enterprise programme direction  ·  Dublin

Programmes miss baselines. We find out why, and reset them.

We are a Dublin practice working at the point where enterprise platforms, multi-vendor delivery and board accountability meet. Thirty years across seven sectors in Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia.

By the numbers

30years of delivery
7sectors served
4countries
€130m+largest programme directed

Practice areas

01

Programme recovery and reset

Programmes rarely fail quietly. They miss a baseline, replan, miss it again, and the reporting stops describing the work. We establish what is actually true and rebaseline to a position a board can approve.

02

Core platform transformation

ERP and core systems at enterprise scale, through four decades of platform generations. The technical decisions and the delivery decisions are the same decisions, and we take both.

04

Assurance and regulatory readiness

Programmes running under supervision, the independent reviews they attract, and the audit responses that follow. Assurance built to be useful, not to be filed.

05

Integration and separation

Both directions of the same discipline. Bringing an acquired business onto one operating model, or standing one up as an independent entity able to trade on day one.

How we work

01020304DiagnoseResetDeliverHand backWhat is actually true,separate from what isbeing reported.Rebaseline scope, planand commercials to aboard-approvable position.The accountable seat.Steering chaired, vendorsheld, the sponsor ahead.Into business as usual,and a structure that canhold it without us.

Four stages, and the fourth is the one that matters. Most programme people leave. Handing back into business as usual, and into a management structure that can hold it, is a deliberate act and we treat it as part of the job rather than the end of it.

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Sectors

  • Pharmaceutical distribution
  • Banking
  • Insurance and life
  • Telecommunications
  • Media
  • Public sector
  • Retail

Four decades across regulated and unregulated industries in four countries. We do not publish client names. What we have worked on →