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Decision Debt: The Silent Killer of Digital Transformation

How Unmade Choices Stall Progress, Drain Value, and Corrode Culture

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Ileana Scemtovici
Sep 11, 2025
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The Unseen Drag on Transformation

Picture this: you’ve invested millions in a new ERP system. The code is clean, the servers are humming, and the integration looks flawless. Six months later, the project is stalled. Not because of a bug. Not because the vendor disappeared. But because a quiet, pervasive force has crept in: decision debt.

Decision debt is …

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