Organizations regularly restructure in the name of speed—most often by embedding Center of Excellence resources (design, program management, architecture) directly into delivery teams.

It’s a logical move. Fewer handoffs. Faster decisions. Work gets closer to execution.

It also fails more often than people expect.

Culture is not an afterthought; it is the operating system of your company. If that system is flawed, no strategy--no matter how brilliant--will succeed. Leaders who fail to recognize and address cultural misalignment will find themselves in companies where survival, not success, becomes the norm.