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Enterprise REadiness is not Change Management

Why change management can’t succeed without a ready system

 

A familiar statistic continues to haunt transformation leaders:

~70% of complex change initiatives fail — missing timelines, overrunning budgets, or failing to deliver business value.


The explanations are familiar too:

  • Technical delivery issues
  • Resistance to adoption
  • Weak change management
     

So organizations respond by:

  • Launching bigger programs
  • Investing more in change frameworks
  • Adding communications, training, and engagement layers
     

And still, the outcome doesn’t change.


The missing layer in change management

Change management is often asked to solve problems it doesn’t control. When organizations aren’t enterprise ready:

  • Decision rights are unclear
  • Ownership is fragmented
  • Priorities shift midstream
  • Accountability is diffuse
     

Change management doesn’t fix these issues.

It exposes them.  It amplifies them. Across the entire organization.

That’s why large change initiatives feel:

  • Expensive
  • Frustrating
  • Exhausting
     

Not because change management failed —
but because it was deployed into a system that wasn’t ready to change.


Why “big projects” don’t fix this

When change struggles, organizations often respond with scale:

  • Bigger programs
  • More funding
  • More governance
     
  • More coordination
     

But a big project doesn’t create clarity.

It doesn’t stabilize ownership.
It doesn’t align priorities.
It doesn’t resolve structural ambiguity.

It simply makes existing dysfunction visible at enterprise scale.


The uncomfortable truth

Change management works best when:

  • Decisions are already clear
  • Ownership is already defined
  • Strategy and delivery are already aligned
  • Leaders reinforce behavior consistently
     

Without those conditions, change management becomes:

  • A buffering layer
  • A translation function
  • A shock absorber
     

Asked to compensate for structural gaps it cannot close.


Why tech teams can’t succeed alone

This is especially visible in digital and AI transformations.

Technology teams are often blamed for:

  • Slow adoption
  • Limited value realization
  • User frustration
     

But technology cannot outrun enterprise unreadiness.

The tech team can’t be effective until:

  • The business is ready
  • Ownership is clear
  • Ways of working are stable
  • Leaders are aligned
     

Change management doesn’t create readiness.

It depends on it.

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