Governed by trust, not truth
When Christa McKee stepped into leading Veolia North America’s digital transformation, he inherited a large technology portfolio with no single source of truth. Work was tracked across spreadsheets, email threads, and status decks rebuilt weekly — leadership saw activity, but not decisions, risks, or strategic alignment. In a global, regulated industry, governance ran on trust and heroics rather than structure and data. The team needed a framework that could hold complexity at scale, with real accountability and a clear line from investment to outcome.
From slide decks to a system
trmeric became the engine behind Veolia’s portfolio governance transformation, operationalizing a model that had previously lived only in slide decks. The team stood up a five-gate governance framework with clear leader accountability at each stage, a two-speed delivery model for both fast and complex initiatives, and a weekly leadership forum anchored directly in live trmeric data. Portfolio reviews shifted from prep-heavy and insight-light to decision-focused, since the data was already assembled. That same structure let Veolia absorb the largest acquisition in the company’s North American history without rebuilding its operating rhythm.
Control by the numbers
DB&T now tracks more than $9 million in cost avoidance year-to-date, with a 300-person technology organization governed through one connected, AI-powered platform touching 10,000 employees. The five-gate governance model was fully operational within a few weeks of go-live. trmeric has onboarded 134 projects — from single-sprint efforts to multi-year programs worth $20 million or more — alongside 60 demands under active review and 137 ideas submitted by business users.
“We’re not chasing updates anymore; we’re seeing the full picture in real time.” – Christa McKee, VP and Chief Transformation Officer, DB&T
Building a memory for every program
For DB&T, trmeric is becoming the foundation of a self-learning governance model. As the team continues to formalize its gated framework, the goal is a knowledge fabric that captures lessons from every program so each new initiative starts smarter — and each transformation cycle gets faster and cheaper than the last.
trmeric is the brain I always wished my transformation programs had. It connects execution, governance, resource optimization, and financial data into something that actually tells a story, not just a status. - Christa McKee, VP and Chief Transformation Officer, DB&T
