Tangible Growth

For CIOs and technology leaders

A technology portfolio to run. A board asking what it delivered.

Every investment had a business case at approval. Six months later, nobody can reconstruct the connection. Tangible Growth keeps each investment connected to the strategic choice that justified it, in a graph your teams maintain as they deliver.

The gap

The portfolio lives in one world. The strategy lives in another.

When the board asks what you got from the SAP investment, assembling the answer takes weeks. The data exists. It is scattered across vendor reports, project trackers and the memories of people who were in the room when the case was approved.

The business case was the connection. It was written once, filed, and never maintained, so by the time anyone asks, the investment and the choice that justified it have drifted into separate systems.

You have a system of record for the portfolio, for the vendors, for the code. You have none for why.

Business case, 2024Platform Game PlanLicence cost down 20%Migrate to S/4HANARetire the legacy ERPS/4HANA wave 3Legacy ERP integrationInfrastructure Game PlanWave 3 live by Q3Consolidate the platformOne data platformCloud-first by 2027

The organizational graph

Every investment traceable to the choice that justified it.

Investments, the strategic choices behind them, the objectives they serve and the teams delivering them, connected and kept current.

Your strategy broken into objectives people own. The commitments those objectives rest on, declared by the teams making them. The dependencies between teams, declared by the people on both ends rather than inferred from activity.

It updates as teams work, in the tools they already use. What you get back is the state of the thing at any moment, with the person who declared each part of it still attached to it.

WAITS ONSTRATEGIC CHOICEConsolidate the platformPVOBJECTIVEMigrate to S/4HANARKOBJECTIVERetire the legacy ERPDMCOMMITMENTS/4HANA wave 3RKCOMMITMENTLegacy ERP integrationDM

Executive Advisor

Answer the board with evidence, not an assembled presentation.

“Which technology investments are delivering against our platform consolidation strategy?” used to be a fortnight of vendor decks. Now it is a question, answered from the graph, with the path it took shown alongside the answer.

The Advisor reads and traverses. It does not decide. Every answer cites the objectives and commitments it passed through, so a wrong answer shows up as a wrong path, and you can see precisely where the picture is still thin.

Executive Advisor

Which technology investments are delivering against our platform consolidation strategy?

Three investments trace to Platform Consolidation: S/4HANA migration at 68% completion, cloud migration delivering 22% cost reduction (ahead of target), and API gateway live with 4 of 7 partner integrations. One blocker: legacy ERP integration dependency is holding up the final S/4HANA wave.

S/4HANACloud MigrationAPI GatewayLegacy Integration

What’s the risk to our Q4 targets?

The legacy integration dependency delays S/4HANA wave 3 by an estimated 6 weeks. That pushes the full cost savings realization past Q4. Recommend engaging your integration partner now to run a parallel workstream. If started this month, Q4 savings targets remain achievable at 85% of plan.

S/4HANA Wave 3Integration PartnerQ4 Cost Targets
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What it asks of your teams

Nothing your delivery teams will notice, and one thing they’ll like.

  • Jira, Asana and Monday stay.

    They hold the work inside a delivery team. The graph holds the layer above: which investment, which strategic choice, which outcome, and the connections between them, which no ticketing system was built to carry.

  • Why not just ask a model?

    A model with no record of your organization’s actual decisions answers with the industry average. The Advisor reads your graph and only your graph, and shows the path it took. Without the record, there is nothing to read.

  • No handing over judgment.

    People own direction, priorities and outcomes. Agents read the graph and traverse it. Everything a machine asserts traces back to something a person declared.

Start with one team. Strategy connected to execution in your first quarter.

We use your actual strategy and your actual tools, in working sessions with the people who own the work.

Built for the enterprise portfolio: SAP ecosystem fit, SSO and SCIM, API-first, ISO 27001 certified. If your instinct is to build this in-house, we are probably not for you yet, and we’d rather say so now.