Writing

Notes on delivery

Governance, operating models, regulatory remediation and where AI actually helps, written from fourteen years of doing it rather than reading about it.

Section 166

The planted leg

A Section 166 starts two programmes, not one. Nobody publishes what the second one costs, and unlike the skilled person’s fee, it is the cost the firm can actually control.

24 September 2026·7 min read· Read →

Governance

Governance belongs at the start, not the recovery

Most overruns are not delivery failures. They are planning, governance and communication failures, and the time you spend at mobilisation is the cheapest time in the whole programme.

24 September 2026·4 min read· Read →

Coming next. A target operating model needs mission control, not a patchwork and AI plus HI: the switch-off test.