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The replatform decision a steering committee should refuse to make

The decision to replatform is a capital expenditure commitment, not a technical one. A governance body that green-lights a replatforming project without clear, quantifiable business drivers risks undermining its own strategic value and committing the business to an expensive, high-risk endeavour with ambiguous returns.

Neil Boughton· Technical Director
4 min readReviewed October 2025
"A steering committee that green-lights a replatforming project without clear, quantifiable business drivers risks undermining its own strategic value."
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Neil Boughton, Technical Director at iWeb
Neil Boughton
Technical Director
29 years at iWeb

Neil leads platform architecture and integration strategy at iWeb. He has designed ERP and commerce integration patterns across manufacturing, wholesale and retail, and writes about operational resilience, release governance, observability, and the infrastructure decisions that determine whether large programmes stay stable under pressure. Bias toward durable, measurable systems over architectural theatre.

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