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It’s Time to Abolish the 70% Change Failure Rate Statistic

Change Starts Here

” One quote that never seems to be mentioned is this follow up in 1995, where Michael Hammer said: “In Reengineering the Corporation , we estimated that between 50 and 70 percent of reengineering efforts were not successful in achieving the desired breakthrough performance. million results. Is the 70% Failure Rate a Myth?

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