From Strategy Slides to Outcomes: Closing the Last-Mile Gap

Where Value Gets Lost

Most transformations start strong.
The board signs off on a strategy. Business cases are built with detailed assumptions about cost, risk, and benefit. Funding is approved. Delivery begins.

Yet research shows that up to 70 percent of transformations fail to deliver their intended value, not because the strategy is wrong, but because execution and benefits realization break down (McKinsey& Company, 2023).

Somewhere between the strategy slides and the results, value quietly leaks away.

Programs track milestones, budgets, and status updates. Yet few organizations track the business case with the same rigor they apply to delivery. The assumptions that underpinned those benefits, such as cost savings, efficiency gains, or risk reductions, are rarely reviewed once the project begins.

The result? Executives fund programs expecting outcomes that never fully materialize.

The Real “Last Mile” Problem

The last mile isn’t about project completion, it’s about realizing the value the business case promised.

Transformation teams often deliver what they set out to: initiatives launched, programs completed, change activities executed.
But value creation requires measurable business outcomes such as sustained cost reductions, productivity gains, risk mitigations, or revenue improvements.

That’s where many transformations stall. Ownership of outcomes sits in the grey zone between the delivery team and the business. Twelve months later, finance or the executive team asks:
Where’s the value we were promised?

How the Gap Widens

• Optimistic assumptions never get revisited.
• Change requests alter scope, but not the business case.
• Delays push back delivery, but benefits aren’t recalculated.
• Reforecasting happens annually, if at all.

So even when delivery goes well, organizations still miss 30 to 40 percent of expected value. Not because plans were wrong, but because the connection between delivery and benefits was lost.

Reconnecting Execution and Value

Amplify closes that gap by making the business case live inside execution.

When activities are delayed, Amplify automatically updates the benefits schedule.
When scope changes, it recalculates impact.
When savings materialize, it connects them directly to the initiatives that drove them.

Executives can see, in real time, how delivery progress translates into financial and strategic value. And when something slips, they can see the cost of delay immediately.

This is how transformation leaders keep eyes on the prize, not just on delivery, but on the value that justifies it.

A Platform Built for Transformation, Not Just Projects

Amplify is purpose-built for enterprise transformation leaders who need to connect strategy, execution, and realized ROI across complex organizations.

Amplify enables Transformation Office leaders to:

• Govern delivery and benefits in one platform
• Maintain a real-time business case
• Hold both delivery and business owners accountable for outcomes
• Focus leadership conversations on value, not activity

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From Funding to Fulfilment

Transformation success isn’t about how much you deliver; it’s about how much value you create.

Amplify gives organizations the visibility and discipline to ensure the business case they approved is the one they achieve.

That’s how transformation leaders turn strategic ambition into measurable outcomes, closing the last-mile gap between delivery and value.

Because strategy sets the direction, execution delivers momentum, and value realization proves transformation’s worth.