How to Scale a Successful Pilot Project

Challenge teams to continue building on successful experiments.

January 08, 2021

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While launching and then scaling a pilot is a well-established approach to innovation, there is plenty of evidence that shows that even successful pilot projects often don’t lead to successful scaled implementations. Based on the authors’ many years of consulting on large-scale organizational change, they suggest a better approach to scaling successful pilots. Rather than requiring that new teams replicate the pilot exactly, share with them what you’ve learned from the pilot and then challenge them to find their own solutions that could work as well — or better — in their own contexts.