Working as management consultants and in internal roles across dozens of companies, we noticed that many organisations often struggled with the same problems. In particular, even when there was a strategy in place, the ability to achieve it was often constrained. In many cases, this wasn't because of a lack of talent or planning, but by the absence of timely feedback between objectives and progress. Boards and executives can't help their teams when they don't have the input they need to make decisions.

Diving more into the world of portfolio and program management, a related challenge emerged. In most cases, lots of data is captured, but in an unstructured way that requires lots of manual effort to consolidate, analyse and synthesise. For instance, to get line of sight of the portfolio for annual planning often took a company 6 months to prepare. By the time they finished, things were often out of date and the world had moved on! The pace of change will only get faster from here, yet things are still done like they were in the 80s. No wonder project and transformation success rates are so low.

We think there's a better way to help your organisation focus on doing the right things. That's why we started JourneyLab and work with our customers to make things easier for them.