Why Do Transformational Efforts Fail? Part 2

Lean Nation, I want to wish everyone a happy new year. Hopefully, 2024 was a good year for your personally and professionally and 2025 will be even better! As promised from the previous blog, this month's topic is a continuation of a 4-part series that was spawned from a LinkedIn posting on failing transformational efforts. For your reference, the link to the posting is here. (2) Post | LinkedIn Recall, in this posting the writer suggested that Agile and Change Management efforts are finished within industry. There are several thousand comments arguing for and against the hypothesis. Also recall, I received an article with the hypothesis being that 98% of the organizations that embark on continuous improvement journeys completely abandon their efforts within 18 months . I do not have any data to support or refute this hypothesis either, but I do not think it is a coincidence that several people are writing about this topic. I can conf...