A recent study in Harvard Business Review shows that “65% of all projects fail”. What derails most cross‑functional projects isn’t a lack of smart people or good intentions; it’s a lack of agreement on time. One function thinks “end of month” means the last business day, another assumes it means “sometime in the next four weeks,” and a third is quietly working to a board meeting that no one else even has on their radar. The plan might look solid on paper, the RACI might have every box filled, but without explicit deadlines the team is still operating on different clocks. The research shows that clarity of ownership plus clarity of timing equals better execution.
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