…and four to go, as the old children’s rhyme goes. But in this case, three is the key number. While many leadership teams excel at crafting strategy (i.e., gathering market data, conducting market analysis, debating trade-offs, and scrutinizing financial projections), they often fail at making that strategy happen. This failure often can be attributed to the lack of three key elements – appetite, skillset, and capacity. This was the conclusion of a new analysis, Before Rolling Out a New Strategy, Assess Your Team’s Readiness.

Such implementation failures are not unique to the health and human service field. Fewer than a third of organizational transformations succeed. And only 30% of large-scale change programs actually deliver their expected value.

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