ODEF™ White Paper

Why major projects fail before they begin — and the six-pillar framework that makes execution readiness measurable.

Nine out of ten megaprojects run over budget (Flyvbjerg, Oxford Saïd). The causes are structural, recurrent — and visible before mobilisation. This paper presents the evidence, the full ODEF™ framework with its scoring model, and a field case where readiness discipline converted a critical interference into ~12 months of anticipated revenue.

• The six failure patterns behind the “Iron Law of Megaprojects”
• The 18-element ODEF™ scoring model, with the Single Pillar Veto
• A real energy-infrastructure case: one €1M decision, twelve months of revenue