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

Change Starts Here

Despite the authors and consultants that tout the failure rate statistic, none of them claim that their methodology has a better success rate. What we think success will look like and what it looks like when we get there may be vastly different, and it’s something that is uncovered as you manage the change.

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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

Hughes traces the mythical 70% failure rate back to the 1993 book Reengineering the Corporation , in which authors Michael Hammer and James Champy stated: “our unscientific estimate is that as many as 50 percent to 70 percent of the organizations that undertake a reengineering effort do not achieve the dramatic results they intended.”

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Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

Jim Champy is a consultant and author. Most hospitals already operate on the edge of profitability. It's time for health care professionals to take on the redesign of their work. No angel of government can or should do it for them. He is currently a 2011 Advanced Leadership Research Fellow at Harvard.

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Where Have All the Process Owners Gone?

Harvard Business Review

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. Brad Power ( bradfordpower@gmail.com ) is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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