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The platform migration was approved on the basis that the platform was the constraint

Chris Wheeler

The platform migration was approved on the basis that the platform was the constraint. You knew before it went live that the platform was not the constraint.

I am not saying you did not need a new platform. Perhaps you did. But the commercial problems driving the decision, the conversion rate, the page speed, the product discovery logic, the checkout abandonment, were not primarily platform problems. They were process problems and team problems and data problems that were going to migrate with the business to the new platform because they lived in the operating logic rather than the technology.

And now you are six months post-migration and the senior leadership team is quietly waiting for the results that justified the cost and timeline and disruption. And you are watching the same metrics sit in roughly the same place they were before, dressed in a faster, cleaner interface. And the next conversation about why performance has not improved is going to happen in a room where the platform was the answer the organisation committed to and you are the person accountable for the outcome.

That is a specific kind of exposure and it compounds with every week that passes.

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