Meanwhile, enterprises consistently throw huge amounts of money at deteriorating initiatives even when failure is inevitable.  They simply don’t know when to cut their losses or to reconstitute resources to set the stage for resilient success.

This book is a practical methodological guide that defines how to deliver transformational enterprise solutions right the first time. This approach, named “Enterprise Transformation Methodology” (ETM), details proven practices that consistently result in comprehensive, sustained, precise and predictable results.  It also describes the forces and dynamics that cause initiatives to fail and explains how to avoid, mitigate and manage them.  Initiatives that succeed almost always protect themselves against these challenges, while those that fall victim to them fail.

None of the forces and dynamics that cause failure are surprising, and they don’t require great knowledge, intelligence, expertise, or budgets to guard against. They do, however, require initiative, vigilance, discipline, leadership and simple common sense.  Apply the practices in ETM, and you’ll poise your enterprise for resilient success, and guard against failure.

I know ETM works because I applied this approach to build my own global business that generated nearly $ 1 billion with $2.5 billion in continuous commercial and government service contracts with 8,600 employees and partners on five continents in just a few years.  My firm also applied the principles of ETM in its government, commercial, humanitarian and environmental programs in over 60 countries on five continents with resounding success.

The methods, practices, and insights in ETM are relevant to nearly any enterprise initiative that involves the implementation of traditional business or technology solutions such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), etc.  It’s also a critical resource for implementing pure technology solutions such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, Cloud and Reverse Cloud Computing and Cyber Security just to name a few.  ETM is equally vital to both the public and commercial sectors, to NGO programs, and to nearly every business space, regardless of the initiative’s size, complexity, geographical distribution, or cultural diversity.

In ETM we name failures’ causes and culprits, since they bring authenticity and provide the basis to demonstrate how to avoid mistakes and solve problems in real time. So, examine the information and practices in the manner intended – to give enterprises a fighting chance.  Ignore the facts, and you’ll simply become a statistic.

Governments around the world are today investing monumental resources to protect their citizens against the global threat of transnational terrorist, cartel and trafficking organizations; the expansion of dictatorships and the defeat of democracies; the potential for regional and global pandemics; the destruction of wildlife and our natural environment; and the potential abuse of emerging technologies that could disrupt national and global safety, security and stability. Any misstep could result in disaster as we have witnessed over recent decades.  So now, more than ever in modern history, it is critical that our public enterprises don’t throw money at challenges then close their eyes and hope for the best. They must instead apply a smart methodological approach and act with discipline to ensure they reach their goals and meet their obligations to people, communities, nations, and humankind.