Initiatives are efforts to achieve your vision.
Initiatives involve change.

everyone can design and run initiatives

Despite each vision being unique, initiatives are often not designed to support them. Designs are inherited. They are inherited from previous efforts, from advisory firms, from industry peers, and from what was discussed at seminars. By design, initiatives may not reflect the nuances in your company or how your people work. You’re either pushing or stealing.
 
pushing a boulder up a hill or
stealing from Peter to feed Paul

less know how to fast-track initiatives

When initiatives are designed, they reflect the designers’ priorities, work styles, and behaviours. These often overshadow the factors and dynamics of people, budgets, and the work environment. Without considering these factors, initiatives have difficulty tapping into the raw resources needed to move forward and make an impact. You’re spinning your wheels and going nowhere fast.
 
80% of the budget accounts for
20% of the results

fewer still know how to make initiatives scale

Scaling is where you gain increasing returns when you invest more money and people. Initiatives often don’t leverage unique competencies and talent. Or consider the scarcity of money, people, and resources. Initiatives are derailed by having too little or too much.
 
to little, too much FUNDING
to little, too much PEOPLE
to little, too much CHANGE