Where committed value goes missing

Committed, Not Banked.

Most transformation value is committed before anyone can prove it. Three controls decide whether it reaches the ledger. Get RCK’s September 2026 market report.

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65% of European PE investors and portfolio executives achieved less than half the value targeted in plans from the past two years Alvarez & Marsal, 2026

14% of senior leaders fully captured the value targeted by their highest-priority initiative last year Deloitte, 2026

~7 yrs average buyout holding period at exit, up from 5 to 6 years in 2010 to 2021 Bain, 2026

What’s inside

Executive summary, and the four decisions and one stop
What the 2026 research says: seven sources, set side by side
RCK’s reading: the under-resourced office, stated as a hypothesis
What one live programme showed: a $128M client-verified in-year cost reduction
The practical playbook: seven moves and one test
Extended holds: a resourcing model for private equity
Paying advisers on evidence: RCK’s own fee terms

Who wrote it

Shaun Taylor, founder of RCK Programme Methods and a 20-year interim CIO, COO, CRO and Chief Transformation Officer, wrote this report from one live programme he ran as Group Chief Transformation Officer of a multi-region telecoms group.

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