How businesses can design a successful transformation program

To design a successful transformation program and tailor it to the circumstances of your organisation and your professional context, you should not only acknowledge that transformation is hard, you should also understand why it’s hard. It’s only by understanding the causes of these difficulties that you can design the strategies and actions to overcome them.

There are three reasons why transformation is difficult:

• the status quo never has to argue its own case
• many corporate factors actively resist change
• many corporate personalities actively resist change.

Status quo never has to argue its own case

I remember learning about Sir Isaac Newton and his three laws of motion in my year 7 science class.