Tailor based on context

There was a medium-sized company that wanted to enter a new market. To do so, they hired an experienced, successful project manager who had worked for a long time in a large organization well known in that market. After coming to the new company, he started implementing the project management system they used to have in the large company. It was a complete failure!

There were two main problems:

1. He was trying to implement a copy of something that was customized for a company with a size, culture, and background all different from the current company.
2. He was trying to implement a complicated system in one go, whereas it had probably been formed gradually and organically in the previous company.

The first issue is the subject of this principle: Project management systems should be tailored to match their environment.