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Complex projects

When the project is bigger than the plan.

Several entities, legacy burdens, many stakeholders or a programme at risk of failing. We take control and bring it back on track.

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Complicated or complex

Complicated is solvable. Complex is another league.

Complicated

  • Many parts, but predictable
  • One expert per discipline is enough
  • One plan holds to the end
  • One error stays local

Complex

  • Several things destabilise at once
  • Decisions depend on one another
  • The plan becomes outdated faster than it is delivered
  • One error drags the next behind it
The markers

This is how we recognise a complex project.

If one of these applies, you are in the right place.

Several entities and countries

Group and multi-entity structures with different legal systems and reporting cultures.

M&A, carve-out, acquisitions

Structures that change: units are added or spun off, the system has to keep up.

Legacy baggage or a bespoke system

Replacing grown industry or in-house solutions whose logic no one fully knows anymore.

A failed first attempt

A project that already stalled once and has to be reset or rescued .

Strategy, governance, delivery, readiness

The Four-Dimension Framework: four things we hold together at once.

Complex means all four destabilise together and affect one another. We hold them together instead of repairing them one after the other. We know how that works at this scale from programmes with several hundred databases and over 20,000 users.

01

Strategy and scope

Keep goal, scope and make-or-buy in view, so the initiative does not disappear into detail.

02

Governance and decisions

Clear decision paths, so open items are settled bindingly, instead of piling up.

03

Delivery and execution

Actively drive delivery, interfaces and suppliers, not just observe them.

04

Readiness and risk

Prepare organisation, change and hidden risks, so the business can actually run on it.

Someone has to hold the whole

The more complex, the higher the risk when no one is holding it together.

  • A fast, unvarnished picture of where you stand
  • Make risks visible, instead of deferring them
  • Take control and own the decisions
  • Back on track and into stable operation
Complex projects rarely fail on individual tasks. They fail because no one holds the whole together. That is exactly our job.
Frank Maier, founder of DGP
Frequently asked questions

What decision-makers ask us about this.

Do you also take over projects that are already stuck?

Yes. Project rescue is part of our home ground. We step in mid-projecttoo, assess the situation and take control.

What sets you apart from classic consulting?

We do not only advise, we take control and own delivery. Senior-led, with Business Central as home, on your side.

Isn't my project too special?

Complexity and special cases are the norm for us. In the first conversation we assess your specific situation, instead of coming with a template.

Do you do ongoing programme control, or project rescue?

Both. For ongoing decision and supplier control there is Governance & Delivery, for an endangered initiative we step in directly.

How quickly can you step in?

In endangered projects often at short notice. We start with a quick situation assessment and then take control.

Do you work together with our existing service providers?

Yes. We coordinate those involved and hold implementation partners to account, technically and contractually.

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