Retail Finance Modernization on a 9-12 Month Deadline: Full Replacement, or Stoppable Phased Evidence Gates First?
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Minerva judgment
Prioritize a time-boxed, stoppable phased evidence-gate sequencing for migration, since the root-cause proportion (U1) and irreversible dependencies (U2) remain unconfirmed; a full replacement carries irreversible risk and may lock in unvalidated process assumptions.
Decision owner in the teaching simulationChair of the Finance Modernization Steering Committee, in an independent educational simulation
Human-controlled next action
Launch root-cause diagnostics (breakdown across technology/data/process/control/skills/governance) and a dependency inventory, while concurrently designing the first stoppable evidence gate.
What would reverse the recommendation
If diagnostics confirm the primary constraint is technology rather than process/governance (U1), key integration dependencies can be safely decoupled (U2), and minimum viable value and delay-cost analysis (U3) show that phasing would forfeit deadline benefits, then shift to an accelerated or larger-scope replacement.
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Retail Finance Modernization on a 9-12 Month Deadline: Full Replacement, or Stoppable Phased Evidence Gates First?
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