Episode 1 · March 19, 2026 · Hosted by Fabian & Sebastian
5 Reasons Your Process Initiative Gets Stuck
The five reasons process initiatives stall before you even start modelling: wrong scope, missing stakeholder buy-in, process isolation, ignoring variance, and jumping to solutions.
Five reasons process initiatives stall before you even start modelling.
The big takeaway
Most process initiatives don't fail in the diagram. They stall before the first model is drawn.
Get the scope, the people and the shared picture of reality right first, and the modelling itself becomes the easy part.
What we walked through
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Wrong scope
Too big and you lose everyone; too small and it's not meaningful. The sweet spot is about 15 tasks in the happy path. Ask 4 questions first: Who owns it? What triggers it? How does success look? Why does it exist?
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Missing stakeholder buy-in
Modelling from outdated documentation or a single interview misses reality. Talk to more people, not fewer.
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Process isolation
If your process lives as a PDF on a shared drive, it's already dead. It needs to live somewhere people can click around, comment and engage.
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Ignoring variance
Regional or informal differences exist in every organisation. Map them, label them with tags or dictionary attributes, and give them a home on the value chain.
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Jumping to solutions
Mixing as-is and to-be creates a "neither" state. Agree on reality first, then design the target.
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