The phrase "a failure to develop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing shortcomings or lack of progress in various fields, such as personal growth, project management, or organizational development.
Example: "The report highlighted a failure to develop effective strategies for improving employee engagement."
Alternatives: "an inability to progress" or "a lack of development".
There's been a failure to develop those systems because there's been no longer-term vision".
Despite this success, Sabean has long drawn local criticism for a failure to develop position players.
This is typically caused by a failure to develop surface-active material (surfactant) in the lungs.
The panel proposed a system based in part on a failure to "develop a coherent sense of self or identity".
A failure to develop ideas seriously weakened "As Above, So Below," in which Ms. Briggs moved on and around medieval battlements designed by Fernando Maneca.
A failure to develop the founder's business, together with disputes over dividing up the spoils, usually does in most family firms.
He believes there's been a systemic failure to develop new ballet choreographers in France, and on 4 February he announced plans to found a choreographic academy, attached to Paris Opera Ballet, that will offer residencies to aspiring dance-makers within and outside the company and to involve Forsythe as part of its mentoring programme.
Specific language impairment (SLI), an unexpected failure to develop appropriate language skills despite adequate non-verbal intelligence, is a heterogeneous multifactorial disorder with a complex genetic basis.
They also reflect a long-running failure to develop a will and vocabulary to discuss questions of race that make Americans feel uncomfortable, defensive and ashamed.
As a result of the failure to develop an epidermis, p63Brdm2/Brdm2 mice do not develop an epidermal barrier and die shortly after birth due to excessive water loss (6).
Further, and partly as a result of the failure to develop a standardized system of accounts in the health sector, there is considerable variation between districts in allocation of particular expenditures to specific activities; as a result it is not possible, so far, to make an accurate functional analysis of expenditure.
