Another Major Risk to Transformational Efforts

Lean Nation, In the prior blogs located here See Beyond the Horizon , I commented on how data shows that 98% of all institutions stop their transformational efforts in their entirety after eighteen months. History has taught me the following lessons as to why this is the case. As discussed in previous blogs in much more detail, the four common reasons why organizations abandon transformation are as follows: 1) Organizations waste the first six months of their improvement efforts 2) Organizations fail to monitor the breadth and depth of change 3) Organizations failure to get everyone involved 4) Organizations operate in two systems One of things I frequently ask organizations is if they do not want to use process improvement as a structured approach to improving operational performance, reducing product development cycles, and strategically growing their business, what is their plan B? Since everyone is trying to perform better a...