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Ignite Management Consulting

Helping clients deliver successful business transformation, system integration and other critical projects.

Ignite is a management consulting firm that helps clients deliver successful business transformation, system integration and other critical projects needing organizational change management. We understand our clients’ vision and we deliver personalized results using a proven methodology and a pragmatic approach. We are known for our personal commitment to achieving the goals we share with our clie

nts. Ignite offers a full range of services to support enterprise transformation projects. We have the capabilities to support clients through all phases of a project.
· Change Management
· Communications
· Training Development & Delivery
· Leadership Engagement
· Organizational Effectiveness
· Program & Project Management
· Business Process Design

Recent Change Management Engagements:
· Salesforce-com implementation for a Fortune 500 industrial supply company.
· Netsuite ERP implementation for a medical devices company.
· Separation of a new publicly traded company from a global multi-industrial firm.
· SAP implementation for a Fortune 100 company.
· PeopleSoft/Oracle deployment across North America, Europe and AsiaPac for a large public relations firm.

08/24/2026

The system went live. The training happened. Six weeks later, everyone's back on the old spreadsheet. Nobody's contract covered what happens after go-live — and that's exactly why it failed.

https://igniteconsulting.substack.com/p/the-rework-call

08/20/2026

The FDE ships the integration. It won't touch the incentive that makes the old workaround faster than the new system. Deployment and permanence are different disciplines — most teams only budget for one.

https://igniteconsulting.substack.com/p/fde-builds-it-fdce-makes-it-hold

08/19/2026

AWS committed a billion dollars to Forward Deployed Engineering. Two teams shipped the identical system on the identical timeline. Six months later, one still runs on it — the other reverted to spreadsheets and email.

https://igniteconsulting.substack.com/p/the-billion-dollar-boundary

08/03/2026

Your change program delivered every artifact on time: stakeholder maps, comms plans, training decks, green readiness dashboards. None of it proves anyone works differently. AI is about to make that gap impossible to hide.

https://igniteconsulting.substack.com/p/go-live-cupcakes-and-green-dashboards

07/29/2026

Every readiness dimension scored above 4 out of 5. A year later, teams were routing approvals through a chat channel and keeping side spreadsheets. The dashboard wasn't wrong — it was answering the wrong question.

https://igniteconsulting.substack.com/p/green-until-the-board-asked-why

07/28/2026

A transformation ran clean for eighteen months, then unraveled ninety days after go-live. Nothing broke — the org drifted back to what it always rewarded. That gap needs its own engineering discipline, not another hire.

https://igniteconsulting.substack.com/p/forward-deployed-change-engineering

07/22/2026

At fifty people, every decision landing on the founder's desk was good judgment. At two hundred, it's the reason nothing moves. Headcount plans get built around roles and reporting lines — almost never around decision rights.

https://igniteconsulting.substack.com/p/two-hundred-people-one-decision-maker

07/20/2026

Training completion hit ninety-seven percent. Every dashboard was green. Six months after go-live, the close still ran through the old spreadsheet — because nobody was resisting, the environment just never changed.

https://igniteconsulting.substack.com/p/the-environment-always-wins-the-operating

07/15/2026

AI rollouts don't fail because the tool is slow. They fail because the approval chain around it never got redesigned. A ninety-second draft still waits two weeks for the same four signatures.

https://igniteconsulting.substack.com/p/the-new-tool-learned-the-old-workaround

07/13/2026

It's easy to critique a profession from a safe distance. The hardest sentence in the new book was admitting there wasn't one — the behaviors it argues against are behaviors the author had done himself.

https://igniteconsulting.substack.com/p/the-sentence-i-couldnt-leave-out

Address

717 Forest Avenue, Suite #250
Lake Forest, IL
60045

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+13127726466

Website

https://www.ignitena.com/contact

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