Working paper
Decision Latency in Major Programme Delivery
The gap between when information exists on a programme and when a decision is made on it — measured, and treated as the primary delivery constraint.
Across sixteen years of delivery the recurring pattern was not technical failure but delay between the moment information became available and the moment a decision was taken on it.
This working paper proposes decision latency as a measurable programme metric, sets out how it can be instrumented on live projects, and considers where AI-assisted analysis shortens it and where it does not.