The sponsoring client was an IT director, newly anointed as the innovation director in a rapidly-growing SME – in fact, the next growth spurt is liable to make them a ‘large’ enterprise. The company had recently embarked on large-scale technology transformation, including replacing their core application and underlying infrastructure. Now that the big and obvious...

Nortel, a global telecommunications company at the time, like others in their industry, had a supply chain that ran into the thousands (3500+). At the time of the undertaking, it was a period of explosive growth in the industry that was also being compromised by unevenness in each telecom company’s supply chain partners’ ability to...