predictable transformation
Most Transformations Fail. Predictable Transformation changes that.
70% of major change initiatives don't deliver. Your teams track timelines and budgets while the hidden structures and behaviors determine every outcome.
These failures are not due to a lack of strategy, tech, or talent, but because the structures and behaviors that determine how your teams work are invisible to you.
why transformations really fail
For decades, executives and leaders have experienced the painful truth: roughly 70% of major transformation efforts fail to deliver business results on time and/or on budget. Over this time, we have added new mechanisms to track just how far behind the schedule and budget we are, and we have done everything we can to "fix" the end users and their willingness to adopt (surely, they're the problem, right?), and yet, no improvement has been made in the last 20 years.
The drivers of the predictable failures we have endured are not a lack of tech, talent or strategy. They are the structures and behaviors that keep the entire organization in a state where
- Teams are misaligned
- Systems conflict with one another
- Processes are fragmented or inconsistent
- Roles are redefined in every office or team
- Complexity rises faster than anyone in the organization can see it
And our new, "simpler," modern tools just don't stand a chance. True Transformation has not been possible, much less, predictable -- until now.
Paula Schwartz
Transformation strategist, speaker and creator of the Predictable Transformation movement, Paula helps organizations stop gambling with outcomes and start delivering transformation which is reliable, repeatable, and measurable.
Drawing on decades of experience leading system-level change, Paula developed the SCALE Framework, a simple, powerful, culture-driven model which reveals how transformation actually works and why it so often doesn't.
Her work is grounded in the lineage of:
- Peter Drucker - structure drives behavior
- Safi Bahcall -- small shifts change everything
- Paula -- structure + behavior --> Predictable Transformation
Paula guides leaders to see and manage the invisible drivers which support or undermine transformation.
The scale framework
THE FIVE LEVERS OF PREDICTABLE TRANSFORMATION
Every transformation success or failure can be traced to one of five systemic levers described below.
These elements interact and reinforce one another.
They are not a checklist. -- they are dynamic and observable.
They are the water your transformation swims in.