Frontier Watch: Transformation Orchestration at the Edge

Transformation governance is reorganising around flow, not projects

Transformation governance is starting to reorganise around flow rather than projects. Through 2025 and into 2026, value stream management has moved from a delivery-team practice into the way transformation itself is steered, with tooling from vendors such as Planview and the Flow Framework community tracking how value moves end to end. The signal worth noting: fewer than 15% of organisations currently connect flow metrics to business outcomes, and the ones that do consistently outperform peers on both speed and customer satisfaction. Most enterprises still run transformation as a set of projects with stage gates and a steering committee — the orchestration model is early, the practice exists, the tooling is maturing, but the governance habit has not caught up.

This sits inside D4, Digital Transformation, and it changes what the dimension governs. As orchestration matures, the controllable unit moves from the project to the value stream, and transformation management becomes a question of flow health rather than milestone completion. Watch flow metrics become the language transformation offices use with the board.

Instrument value streams now and you steer transformation before the market catches up

If you build or run transformation tooling, the gap is clear: most organisations cannot yet link flow to outcome across your portfolio. Position your team early as the one that can instrument value streams and read them, and you move from reporting on transformation to steering it before the rest of the market closes the gap.

1. "Fewer than 15% of organisations connect flow metrics to business outcomes, and the ones that do outperform their peers on speed and satisfaction."
2. "Orchestration means governing the continuous flow of value across teams, while your competitors are still counting milestones."