How to Scale a Successful Pilot Project

“How to Scale a Successful Pilot Project,” by Ron Ashkenas and Nadim Matta. Harvard Business Review , January 08, 2021 If you are a leader seeking to introduce a major change in your organization — a new technology, process, system, product, partnership, or the like — you’ve probably been advised to construct a pilot project. Its purpose, of course, is to reduce the risk of failure across the entire organization by testing the idea in a small, controlled setting so that you can further refine your solution before you roll it out.

However, while launching and then scaling.....