Adoption is the real constraint

Product quality rarely kills a new capability. Adoption does — and adoption is a design problem, not a marketing one.

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I have watched more new capabilities die of low adoption than of low quality. The product was fine. Nobody used it.

Adoption is not downstream of the build; it is part of it. Incentives, air cover, talent design, and the path of least resistance for the user all decide whether a genuinely good tool ever gets picked up.

A capability nobody adopts is indistinguishable, on the balance sheet, from one that never existed.

Treat adoption as a first-class design constraint and the build changes shape. Treat it as someone else's problem and the best work quietly goes unused.

KK

Kartik Kumar

Building PE value creation & new services, from zero