Sanjay Kumar Mohindroo

The 60-Second Test for Business-IT Alignment. One question reveals whether leaders truly agree on outcomes, value, and accountability before a transformation consumes more capital and credibility. The One Question That Exposes Misalignment in 60 Seconds Give a leadership team 60 seconds and one sheet of paper. Ask each person the same question separately, and you may learn more about the state of a major transformation than you will from a 60-page steering committee deck. The question is: “Twelve months from now, what single business outcome will prove this initiative was worth the capital, how will we measure it, and who is accountable for delivering it?” Over three decades around enterprise technology, I have learned that the most dangerous form of misalignment is rarely open disagreement. Open disagreement is visible. It can be debated. The expensive kind is false alignment. Everyone approves the same programme, uses the same vocabulary, attends the same steering committee, and leav...

Why I Killed Transformation Programs, And Saved Millions. After three decades leading enterprise IT, here's why killing the wrong transformation program can create more value than completing it. The Transformation Programs I Have Killed, And Why It Was the Right Call A CEO once asked me a question that changed the course of a nine-figure transformation. "Are we too far in to stop now?" My answer was immediate. "No. We're just early enough to avoid making a very expensive mistake." We shut the program down that week. Months of work stopped. Several consulting teams left. Budgets were reallocated. People questioned the decision. Eighteen months later, the company launched a completely different transformation. It was smaller, faster, tied directly to business priorities, and delivered measurable returns within the first year. Killing the first program was not a failure. It was one of the best transformation decisions we ever made. That experience wasn't un...