Most deployments start with a wave of it. Hundreds of people trained, two days of theory, a certificate at the end. Months later much of it has quietly faded, because the training was never anchored to anything the business had actually decided to do.

Most continuous improvement deployments look healthy in year one. Year two is when something quieter happens — and almost no one names it. On the failure mode that is set not at implementation, but at the start.