When Improvement Projects Don’t Progress

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of stalled improvement projects and the insights that can still be gained from them.

Improvement practitioners know the fear: you’ve done the work, you’ve found the solution… but your improvement project just doesn’t progress. The reality is that sometimes budget shifts, priorities change, stakeholders block. But stalled improvement projects aren’t wasted. In this episode, Damion Albinson joins Susannah Clarke to unpack what you still gain when implementation doesn’t happen. From uncovering hidden quick wins, to spotting strategic misalignment early, to resetting how teams th...

People in this episode

Host: Susannah Clarke

Guest: Damion Albinson

Topics covered

• improvement projects
• stakeholder management
• strategic alignment
• project implementation
• quick wins

Keywords

• improvement
• projects
• stakeholders
• budget shifts
• strategic misalignment
• quick wins
• implementation

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