As a project leader and innovater you are charting new grounds. One of the power skills to get better at is getting your team and impacted organizations on board. It is not always easy but critical success factor. If those opposed build a platform it will only make effective change more difficult. Change is neverending, change is constant. It is worth it get on board and navigate it as best you can.
This is another post called “Acknowledging the pain, change in an organization” that is on this topic and speaks to acceptance, resistance and ideas to put into action
http://www.cmoe.com/blog/acknowledging-the-pain-change-in-an-organization.htm
