Install the system that makes the baseline hold — and decisions stick.
The Decision-Ready Programme Turnaround takes one live programme and installs delivery control into it over six weeks — one baseline, explicit decision rights, change blocked at the gate, and a weekly cadence your team runs without us. No shutdown. No transformation programme.
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Six weeks. Fixed scope. Fixed fee. One programme moves from drifting to controlled — and your team owns the system after we leave.
You've already had the review. You know where it's drifting. Nothing has actually changed.
Every fix needs you personally in the room to make it stick — and the moment you step out, it slides back.
The baseline exists on paper, but the site runs on a different reality, and the gap is widening.
The Turnaround is an install, not a report. We embed on one live programme and put the system in: one baseline everyone runs, decision rights that are explicit, change that can't enter without being priced, and a cadence that catches slippage early.
Built for the Head of PMO or programme owner who already knows what's wrong — and needs it fixed in a way that survives without them in the room. No shutdown, no parallel transformation programme. The work keeps running while the control goes in around it.
Five controls, applied in sequence. The Reset assesses them; the Turnaround installs them — each one becoming a working part of how the programme runs, not a document on a shelf.
Written scope, documented assumptions and acceptance criteria — so every change has a clean "before".
One live baseline that matches site reality, run by everyone — no parallel plans.
Every open item gets an owner, a deadline and a consequence. Made once, recorded, executed.
Verified capacity and lead-time checks before any date is allowed into the baseline.
A fixed weekly rhythm that catches slippage early — the PMO leads, instead of reporting late.
You know where control has been lost. You need it installed and held — without becoming the single point of failure that keeps it standing.
One live programme that has to be visibly back under control in weeks, not quarters — in front of execs, sites and suppliers.
A strategically important programme where the next overrun is the one that gets noticed. You need the system in, and you need it to stay in.
Single-source baseline + change rules — one approved baseline, no version confusion.
One live plan — matched to site reality, run by everyone, no parallel schedules.
Decision rights map + decision log — who decides, by when, recorded and executed.
Vendor date verification — dates confirmed against real capacity before they land.
Control tower cadence + exec narrative pack — one weekly rhythm, one story for the board.
Handover + adoption system — templates, standards and training so your team runs it.
A European airline group's overseas premises and operations were spread across multiple countries on inconsistent set-ups, with continuity depending on the few people who knew how each location ran.
Installed one operating model and one set of governing rules across the entire portfolio — lease terms, facilities and operations simplified into a repeatable system, so every site ran the same way instead of on local knowledge.
Across the portfolio, workstreams were consistently approved, financed and delivered on time or early, below budget — with an operation that no longer depended on who built it.
The controls fit around live delivery, not stop it. The change gate takes minutes; the decision map reduces alignment meetings. The aim is fewer rework cycles — because change is priced before it starts, not after.
That's exactly why the handover and adoption system is a core deliverable, not an afterthought. Templates, standards and meeting scripts are built to run without us. We don't leave until the rhythm is running without us in the room.
Most governance is decorative. The 5Cs Framework™ is mechanically enforced: change doesn't enter without a ticket, dates don't move without an impact conversation, decisions don't get made outside the forum. The difference is teeth.
The system has gone in during a supply embargo, across a multi-country stakeholder portfolio, and on simultaneous cross-border pipelines. Complexity and politics are the environment, not the obstacle — the system is built for exactly that pressure.
The six weeks installs the system on one live programme, not the whole organisation. Weeks 1–2 lock the baseline, 3–4 gate the change, 5–6 make decisions stick. By week six the rhythm runs and the team owns it; the handover carries it beyond.
Your team runs the system using the handover package. If you want sustained oversight, the CONTROL Tower™ retainer keeps the cadence and commercial defence in place. There is no forced retainer — the install is the entry point, not the ceiling.
Anyone can find the problem.
The system is what survives after we leave.
The Turnaround installs control that holds without you in the room — and your team keeps running it.
Six weeks from now, the system could be running — without you holding it together.