The phrase "a failure to adapt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something does not adjust or change in response to new conditions or challenges.
Example: "The company's decline can be attributed to a failure to adapt to the rapidly changing market demands."
Alternatives: "an inability to adjust" or "a lack of adaptability."
Finally, although popular discourse suggests that migration reflects a failure to adapt to climate change, migration is also an adaptive response that will allow migrants, their families, and the communities they move between to cope with the effects of climate change (Agrawal 2008; Bardsley and Hugo 2010; Barnett and Webber 2010).
Cisco faces additional pressure because of evolving markets and a failure to adapt.
"One reason I left the firm was a failure to adapt," a former banker in the New York branch said.
Cohen and Gooch ascribe the disaster at Gallipoli to a failure to adapt — a failure to take into account how reality did not conform to their expectations.
The union movement is a busted flush, ground down by technological changes and restrictive legislation, and is characterised by a failure to adapt to 21st century realities.
To anyone who has stepped inside a Chuck E. Cheese in the past ten years, there's no doubt that a failure to adapt is at least partially responsible for its problems.
In this view, conservatism has a more serious problem than self-betrayal: a doctrinaire failure to adapt to new circumstances, new problems.
ATP competitive inhibitors block this response much more potently than rapamycin, resulting in a lethal failure to adapt to hemolytic stress.
Some argue that as wealthy people convert their homes to solar power, prices will rise for lower-income people who still have to rely on the grid…although this seems more like a "utility's failure to adapt its business model to the changing market" rather than an actual problem with solar power.
He said the problem of bed-blocking, often caused by a shortage of care home places or failure to adapt a person's home, was serious and steadily worsening.
And behind that failure to adapt was a deeply psychological problem: the British simply couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that they might have to adapt.
