Henk van Huyssteen
Associate-Director, Transformation & Delivery Management Lead
Deloitte Consulting Africa
Henk has more than two decades of project and programme management experience. In parallel he played delivery director roles in two consulting firms before joining Deloitte in 2016.
A master’s degree in Future Studies kindled a deep interest in complex systems thinking, and how this changed expectations of the project manager role, conditions for team performance and definitions of project value. He led various CX and data & analytics transformation initiatives over the past seven years. These gave him direct experience of success factors and points of failure on complex digital programmes.
Henk currently leads Deloitte Africa’s Transformation & Delivery Management practice. The practice offers services in programme leadership, lean portfolio management, Agile transformation, programme assurance and rescue.
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Olympic Optimism, Digital Dreams – Using Metrics to Stay Grounded and Alert
Companies continue to invest heavily in digital transformation as a pathway to future success. Yet, the risk of extreme cost overruns on IT projects is surprisingly similar to those seen in preparing cities for the Olympic Games – driven by hidden systemic risks.
The parallels between these high-stakes initiatives provide a different perspective on digital transformation programme challenges. In this session you will learn how to:
- Recognise these hidden risk patterns in large-scale transformation projects
- Define metrics as early-warning indicators of over-optimistic planning
- Use insight from historic data and continuous performance measurement to overcome experience gaps
This talk will provide practical insights for project managers, leaders, and decision-makers who want to turn digital ambitions into sustainable results – without losing sight of reality.
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