The most important part of your SAP programme hasn't started yet.

Readiness isn't binary — it's a spectrum. Most organisations are ready enough to start preparing, but not ready enough to hand the keys to an SI. The right question isn't "are we ready?" but "ready for what?" RunFast Launchpad answers that question before it becomes expensive to find out.

True readiness for a SAP transformation means having a clear, board-approved business case, defined scope, a selected SI, and the programme governance in place to manage delivery from day one. Most organisations starting out have none of these. That is not a problem — it is exactly what RunFast Launchpad is designed to establish. The risk is not starting before you are ready. The risk is engaging an SI before you are ready — at which point the SI's clock is running and the cost of getting the foundations right is significantly higher.

At minimum: a board-approved business case, a defined and protected scope, an understanding of your own readiness across change, data, and process, and a clear view of what you expect the SI to deliver and how you will govern them. Most organisations have none of these before they go to market. That is what Launchpad provides.

Engaging an SI without the right foundations in place is one of the most common and most expensive mistakes in SAP transformation. The SI will start building to whatever they assumed during the sales process — and change requests will follow. Before engaging an SI, your organisation should have a business case that has board sign-off, a scope baseline the SI is contracted to deliver, an internal programme structure capable of managing the relationship, and a view of your data, change, and process readiness. Limelight builds all of this during a RunFast Launchpad engagement — typically in eight to twelve weeks — before your SI contract is signed.

With Launchpad, typically eight to twelve weeks. Without it, organisations often spend three to six months in informal preparation — achieving less, spending more, and arriving at SI selection without the clarity they need to negotiate effectively.

The eight to twelve week Launchpad timeline covers business case development, scope definition, SI market engagement, vendor selection, and programme governance setup. This is significantly faster than the typical unstructured approach, which often takes six months or more and produces worse outputs — because it lacks the structured methodology, senior expertise, and defined deliverables that Launchpad provides. The organisations that move fastest to a well-governed SI engagement are the ones that invest properly in the preparation phase rather than treating it as an informal internal exercise.

A conversation. No pitch, no proposal until it makes sense. We will ask the right questions and tell you honestly whether Launchpad is the right next step for your organisation — and what that would look like in practice.

Every Limelight engagement starts with a structured sixty to ninety minute conversation with a senior director. We will listen to where you are, ask the questions that matter, and give you an honest view of what we think. If Launchpad is clearly the right fit, we will tell you why and what the engagement would cover. If we think you need something different, we will tell you that too. There is no commitment required and no proposal until the conversation has established that one makes sense.