SAP programmes rarely fail because the budget ran out. They fail because nobody was watching the budget closely enough.
The CFO Scorecard assesses the financial controls, benefit tracking mechanisms and cost governance structures that determine whether your programme delivers its promised ROI — or quietly erodes it. Five minutes. A personalised 25-page report. Actionable from the moment you receive it.
The scorecard covers the financial and benefit areas where CFO-level oversight most commonly breaks down:
Budget control — Do you have genuine financial visibility across the full programme cost — including the costs the SI proposal did not include? Are budget variances surfaced early enough to act on, or only when they have already compounded?
Benefit realisation — Are benefits tracked against the original business case? Is there a clear owner for each benefit, with a measurable timeline? Or was the business case a document produced to get approval and rarely looked at since?
Cost governance — Is there a robust change control process that assesses the financial impact of every scope change before it is approved? Or does scope creep get absorbed until it becomes a budget crisis?
Financial reporting — Are you receiving programme financial information that is genuinely useful for decision-making — or a sanitised summary produced by the people you are trying to hold to account?
A personalised 25-page report scored against each area. Not a generic financial framework — a specific assessment of where your programme's financial controls are exposed and what to do about it. Written by Limelight founder Neil How, drawing on two decades of SAP programme delivery across more than fifteen full lifecycles.
The financial visibility gap that this scorecard surfaces is structural, not accidental. When the only financial reporting on a programme comes from the SI, it is shaped by what the SI wants you to see. Independent client-side oversight — a Business Integrator — provides the financial governance layer that the SI cannot provide for itself.
If your score reveals gaps, those gaps are not unique to your programme. They are the predictable consequence of a programme without independent financial oversight. That is the problem Limelight exists to solve.
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