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.