Creating and demonstrating value from change initiatives, projects and programs
is the mandate of the day. Programs and processes are held to a new level of
accountability; they must demonstrate value beyond the activity itself. However,
according to an ATD and ROI Institute study, only 8% of CEOs are currently
seeing business impact data from their initiatives. When the failure of such
initiatives is explored, the primary reason identified is in organizations'
failure to align projects to business needs from the beginning, and failure to
transfer knowledge into action. Whether due to organizational culture or
supervisors not fully getting behind the project, something in the system
prevents the