The Grossman Group Partners With Harris Poll to Publish Research on Enterprise Change

H/T David Grossman

The Grossman Group, in partnership with The Harris Poll, recently launched new research into what makes or breaks large organizational transformations. You can access the research here:

Below are 5 key takeaways from the research:

Key Findings:

1. Organizations are at the change tipping point.
   Most employees can absorb 1-2 major changes per year, yet over 50% of business leaders expect to implement 3 or more in the next two years.
2. AI is the most frequent—and most difficult—change.
   AI is driving a third of today’s strategic and operational transformations. 83% of leaders expect AI to play a major role in future change, and 1 in 4 say it’s the hardest change to implement.
3. 1 in 4 major change efforts fail—at great cost.
   Failure leads to burnout, dissatisfaction, workload spikes, and turnover, especially when employees lack communication and feedback loops.
4. Effective communication triples change success.
   Organizations are 3x more likely to succeed in major change when employees are fully bought in. Clear and credible communication doubles success rates.
5. Culture change and layoffs are especially at risk.
   These change types are the least likely to succeed, particularly when leaders aren’t trained to communicate them well.