How did we even get here?
It's impossible to really know what potential is squandered because of fear or a lack of willpower to try different approaches.
Most futures are stumbled on by chance, rather than by design.
And what most organisations end up achieving is almost always a far cry from its potential.
This isn't usually because of the projects that were completed in a period, but rather due to all of the initiative that weren't actioned at all.
To be honest, most of these should-have-been-done initiatives never even make it to the brainstorm phase. Entrenched legacy mindsets guard the gates of innovation with precision.
It's impossible to really know what potential is squandered because of fear, or a lack of willpower to try different approaches. But you can be sure that it is significant.
This 'potential' gap...this total waste...is the cost that an organisation pays for its bureaucratic structure and the quality of thinking (or rather the lack there of) done by management.
Closing this gap is achieved through design. But first there is an acknowledgement of the existence of the gap.