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Across the first three parts of this series, I've looked at why teams struggle with change even when they buy the right technology. There's one more piece of the puzzle, and it's the one most often overlooked: the relationship between your business and the people helping you deliver the change.

Go-live often brings a productivity dip, not the leap in performance everyone expected. Tasks slow, questions rise, and confident employees suddenly seem unsure. This piece looks at why the dip is a normal stage of change rather than proof something has gone wrong, why AI adoption often dips more quietly than a system change does, and why the real risk isn't the dip itself, it's abandoning a sound decision halfway through it.