Why Kevon Holder Says Transformation Fails Without the Right Team
Every few years, a company decides it's time to transform its finance function. New ERP. New reporting. A shift from bean-counting to real business partnering. The slide deck looks great. Leadership signs off. And a surprising number of these efforts still stall, quietly, expensively, months after the launch party. When that happens, the blame usually lands on the tool or the plan. Rarely on the thing that actually decided it. That thing, more often than not, is the team. It's a point Kevon Holder comes back to repeatedly, drawn from two decades leading finance, FP&A, treasury, and transformation across industries from manufacturing to private equity. A transformation isn't really a technology project or a strategy document. It's a group of people being asked to work in a new way. Get the team right, and the tools follow. Get it wrong, and the best software in the world just automates the same old problems faster. Why Transformations Get Blamed on the Wrong Things ...