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Project Insider Asia

Project Insider Asia

By: Ramesh Dixit
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The Invisible Architecture of Failure: What Billion-Dollar Collapses Share - Project Insider Asia investigates the business behind billion-dollar successes and failures.

Hosted by Ramesh Dixit, a project management leader with more than 20 years of experience delivering complex capital projects across Asia Pacific, this show examines why major projects succeed, fail, recover, or collapse.

Every episode goes beyond headlines and investigates the decisions, governance structures, leadership choices, risk management failures, incentives, and warning signs that shape outcomes long before a project becomes front-page news.

From aviation disasters and infrastructure megaprojects to digital transformation failures, data centres, construction programmes, public sector initiatives, and corporate collapses, Project Insider Asia reveals the hidden patterns that determine success or failure.

Using publicly available investigations, inquiry reports, audit findings, regulatory documents, and project management principles, each case is reconstructed through an evidence-led forensic approach.

Topics include:

• Project Management • Programme Management • Megaprojects • Capital Projects • Infrastructure • Aviation • Data Centres • Digital Transformation • Corporate Governance • Risk Management • Leadership • Business Strategy • Construction • Technology Projects • Public Sector Programmes • Organizational Failure

Featured investigations include Boeing 737 MAX, Berlin Brandenburg Airport, NHS National Programme for IT, Queensland Health Payroll, Denver International Airport, Crossrail, Phoenix Pay System, Sydney Opera House, and other landmark projects from around the world.

If you are a project manager, executive, business leader, investor, engineer, consultant, entrepreneur, or someone responsible for delivering complex initiatives, this podcast will help you identify risks earlier, make better decisions, and understand the warning signs before failure occurs.

Project Insider Asia

The Business Behind Billion-Dollar Successes & Failures.

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Episodes
  • Boeing 737 MAX: Why 346 People Died. And It Wasn't the Software

    Boeing 737 MAX: Why 346 People Died. And It Wasn't the Software
    Jun 20 2026

    Two crashes.

    346 lives lost.

    Investigators identified the technical cause within weeks.

    So why was the aircraft still flying?

    In this episode of Project Insider Asia, Ramesh Dixit examines the Boeing 737 MAX crisis through the lens of project governance, leadership, risk management, and decision-making.

    This is not a story about software.

    It is a story about incentives, deadlines, organisational pressure, regulatory oversight, and warning signs that were visible long before the crashes occurred.

    Drawing on more than 20 years of experience managing complex projects across Asia Pacific, Ramesh breaks down the decisions, trade-offs, and governance failures that turned a technical problem into a global catastrophe.

    Topics covered:

    • Boeing 737 MAX • MCAS • Aviation Safety • Project Governance • Risk Management • Leadership Failures • Regulatory Oversight • Organizational Decision Making • Systems Thinking

    Because projects rarely fail because of one mistake.

    They fail because warning signs are ignored.

    For Project Insider Asia specifically, this title fits the channel brand much better than focusing on software. Your channel's core promise is understanding why smart people approve bad decisions, not investigating technical failures alone.
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