By: Temitope Onanuga
For decades, enterprise IT projects have followed a familiar and costly pattern. Ambitious digital transformation initiatives are announced with optimism, budgets are approved, timelines are drawn, and teams are assembled. Yet somewhere between strategy and execution, many of these projects derail. Deadlines slip, costs spiral, risks emerge too late, and executives are left wondering why massive technology investments fail to translate into measurable business value.
Philip Ojiegbu has spent his career inside this problem.
A strategic IT project management expert with deep experience across enterprise systems, fintech platforms, and large-scale digital transformation programs, Ojiegbu has seen firsthand how even well-funded organisations struggle to deliver technology projects that actually work. According to him, the issue is rarely a lack of talent or tools. It is the absence of a unifying, outcome-driven framework that connects strategy, execution, risk, and value in one continuous loop.
That realisation led to the creation of ProPulse™.
ProPulse™, short for a proprietary Smart IT Project Performance and Risk Optimisation framework, was designed to address the silent gaps that cause IT projects to fail. Rather than treating projects as isolated delivery exercises, ProPulse™ reframes them as strategic business assets that must be continuously measured, optimised, and aligned to enterprise goals.
At its core, ProPulse™ introduces a structured assessment and execution model that enables organizations to see, in real time, how their projects are performing across critical dimensions such as strategic alignment, delivery health, risk exposure, stakeholder value, and long-term sustainability. It works across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid environments, making it especially relevant for modern enterprises running complex, multi-methodology portfolios.
What sets ProPulse™ apart is its emphasis on foresight rather than reaction. Traditional project governance often identifies risks only after damage has been done. ProPulse™ embeds early-warning indicators into project planning and execution, allowing leaders to anticipate delivery failures, budget overruns, and scope misalignment before they become expensive problems.
Since its introduction, ProPulse™ has gained traction among enterprises and technology-driven organisations seeking to improve delivery confidence and executive trust in IT. Early adopters have reported measurable outcomes, including significant reductions in project overruns, improved delivery timelines, clearer ROI visibility, and stronger alignment between IT teams and business leadership. In portfolio environments managing dozens of concurrent initiatives, ProPulse™ has helped eliminate duplication, streamline decision-making, and bring clarity to previously fragmented delivery landscapes.
Beyond metrics, ProPulse™ has influenced how organisations think about digital transformation itself. Rather than asking whether a project was delivered, executives are now asking whether it delivered value, reduced risk, and strengthened organisational capability. That shift in mindset is one of the framework’s most enduring impacts.
Ojiegbu’s work has not gone unnoticed. His contribution to productivity-led innovation and enterprise transformation has earned recognition from professional institutions and industry bodies, positioning him as a thought leader in modern IT project performance optimisation. Through speaking engagements, advisory roles, and professional collaborations, he continues to advocate for a more disciplined, value-centric approach to enterprise technology delivery.
For Ojiegbu, however, ProPulse™ is not a finished product. He envisions its evolution into an intelligent, AI-augmented platform capable of predicting project success probabilities, simulating risk scenarios, and guiding executives toward data-backed investment decisions even before projects begin. In a world where technology spend continues to rise, such predictive capability could redefine how organisations plan and execute transformation.
As enterprises across Africa and beyond accelerate their digital ambitions, the cost of failed IT projects is becoming too high to ignore. Philip Ojiegbu’s ProPulse™ offers a timely and pragmatic response: a framework that turns complexity into clarity and ambition into accountable execution.
In doing so, Ojiegbu is not just improving how projects are delivered. He is reshaping how organisations measure success in the digital age.
