A consultant explains why most assessment reports fail: they list problems and solutions but offer no path to actually execute them. His firm spends 60-70% of its effort after the assessment building realistic timelines, detailed project charters, and resource models to make recommendations actually doable.
We're there to help them navigate the progress that they've made, understand the opportunities that they've not yet been able to conquer, and then help them with their story to go beyond, here's your assessment report, here's all your issues, here's the prioritized list, and here's a list of 20 projects you can do. Just this, that, like, that's, that's unfortunately, that's what most of the market is producing. We're spending 60 to 70% of our time past that point on really bringing it to life, the full strategy, the charters for every single project, the resourcing modeling, the really anything that I would have needed to execute on those recommendations in realistic timings that aren't the typical everything starts on Jan 1 and finishes in 7 months and come write us a $20 million check and we'll come do it for you. That's— I wouldn't even ask that of a company because I don't think that'd be effective, nor would it be sustainable outside of some capital infusion.
