Insights
Short pieces on stalled programmes, inherited agendas, and the gap between what the board was told and what the CEO actually finds.
28 March 2026
There is a conversation that happens in boardrooms across mid-market firms, usually around the eighteen-month mark of an AI investment: spend is visible, return is not.
25 March 2026
Your firm made a serious AI investment. Results cannot wait. The Reset is a way to recover the agenda before the board writes the programme off.
The pre-stress window
By the time a mid-market business looks distressed, the decisions that caused it are 12 to 18 months old. Newly appointed CEOs inherit that lag.