IDG Contributor Network: Why do so many business transformation initiatives fail?

Some companies achieve breakthrough performance results from their transformation initiatives, but they are rare. In companies of all sizes and industries, transformation journeys have a very high degree of failure. They fail because of organizational pushback, like tissue rejection in an organ transplant. What enables the successful companies to get beyond the pushback? In working with and observing many companies trying to achieve a transformation, it’s clear to me that approach is the i