DGP Webinar Series Session 2: You Had a Plan. Now You Have 12 Countries.. Frank Maier and Klaus Feldam on international BC project execution.

DGP Webinar Series – Part 2:

Why International BC Projects Don’t Fail at Go-Live — They Fail Long Before.

What Part 2 of our series covers:

The Myth of the Perfect Template: why global templates collapse at country 2 or 3
Governance Under Pressure: what happens when HQ, countries, and partners pull in different directions
The Multi-Country Fit/Gap Illusion: why optimising locally destroys globally
Resource Reality: the silent killer no rollout plan accounts for honestly
The Rollout Factory: how scalable execution works when each country is a production step, not a new project
The First Real Warning Signs: how to spot drift before it becomes a crisis

In the first session, we talked about why large BC projects fail before they start. This session is about something more uncomfortable: projects that started well, and still went wrong.

Most large-scale ERP rollouts are managed as traditional projects: fixed scope, rigid timelines, big-bang go-live. The methodology looks solid on paper. The Gantt chart is green. The steering committee is aligned.

Then execution begins across countries.

Requirements evolve. Regulatory conditions shift. Local teams adapt the template. Change requests multiply. The plan, which was always optimistic, becomes unreachable. Decisions that should have been made at project level get pushed down to delivery teams who have neither the authority nor the context to make them.

This session examines what actually happens when large BC projects enter execution, and what a product development operating model changes. Not as theory. As a structural framework drawn from real project experience.

“Projects don’t fail loudly. They drift quietly.”

Safe the Date!

20TH APRIL 2026

4 PM CET

The speakers:

Frank Maier

CEO

Klaus Feldam

VP of Business Development

You Had a Plan. Now You Have 12 Countries