Project recovery
When nobody can tell you
where the project really is.
When an ERP implementation has slipped more than once, delivery confidence disappears. An independent ERP review can help identify what is working, what is at risk and what should change, helping recover what once felt lost.
Microsoft ERP, CRM, data and integrations, with people who have done this before.
What usually brings people to us
Projects rarely fail all at once.
Confidence goes gradually. A slip here, an open decision there, and then one day leadership realises it no longer believes the plan but cannot point to the moment that changed.
If several of these look familiar, the problem is usually not effort. Nobody is working less hard. There is simply no shared, evidenced view of where the project really is.
The date keeps moving
It moves again, and nobody sounds more confident than last time.
Nobody can explain the scope in a sentence
Ask two people what is included and you get two answers.
The status report feels too calm
It says amber. The people doing the work say something else.
Testing keeps getting squeezed
Every earlier delay quietly comes out of the time left to prove it works.
The data is still being sorted out
Late in the day, and still nobody will say it is ready to move.
The same decisions keep coming back
They are discussed, not made, and reappear a month later.
RAPID AI Discovery Platform
Find the real position before rewriting the plan.
RAPID AI supports our business outcome assessment and discovery process. It helps structure what people tell us, connect problems to desired outcomes and carry the important decisions forward into delivery.
- 1CaptureCapture what people are seeing.
Bring stakeholder concerns, workshop findings, project information and known issues into one place instead of leaving them across meetings, emails and spreadsheets.
- 2CheckSeparate evidence from assumption.
Make it clear what has been demonstrated, what somebody believes to be true and what still needs checking.
- 3ConnectConnect the issue to what it affects.
A late migration, unresolved design decision or untested integration matters because of the business process, cost, risk or go-live decision sitting behind it.
- 4Carry forwardCarry the position into the recovery plan.
Agreed priorities, open decisions, dependencies and ownership carry forward into the plan used to steady and recover the programme.
RAPID AI supports the consultant. It does not replace them.
Customer. Explains what is happening and provides the evidence.
InteliSense. Challenges the position, investigates it and makes recommendations.
RAPID AI. Helps keep the information organised, connected and traceable.
AI can help organise, summarise and connect information gathered through discovery. Consultants and customer process owners remain responsible for interpretation, challenge and decisions.
Recovery is not only about getting the project moving again. We also check whether the work still supports the business outcome that justified it in the first place: business objective, desired outcome, required capability, mvp, technology, measure.
The answer may be to continue, reduce scope, re-sequence, remediate specific work, change the delivery arrangement, delay go-live or stop something that no longer makes sense.
RAPID AI supports assessment and discovery. It is separate from RAPID 10, 30 and 90 accelerated implementation routes.
Evidence
Customers describing their own projects.
The strongest evidence of how we work comes from the organisations we work with.
80%
of our business comes from existing customers and referrals.
The best I’ve ever experienced in over 20 years of collaboration.
Programme Manager, Hill & Smith Plc
How recovery works
Find out, steady it, then rebuild the plan.
In that order. Rewriting the plan before you know what is genuinely finished is how a project gets rescued twice.
- Find out: What is actually finished, what is at risk, and what has been assumed.
- Steady it: Protect the things that would cause real damage if they went wrong this month.
- Choose: Separate what must be fixed now from what can genuinely wait.
- Rebuild the plan: A route to go live that the people delivering it believe in.
- Put someone in charge: Clear ownership, real decisions, honest reporting.
- Improve: Once it is stable, get the value the business was promised.
A conversation, not a pitch
Tell us what is going wrong.
You do not need a pack, a business case or an agreed version of events. Tell us what is worrying you and we will tell you what we would look at first, and whether we are the right people for it.