{
  "title": "AI adoption: do the same words mean the same thing to everyone?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/adoption-ia-les-mots-ont-ils-le-meme-sens-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-11-23",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A shared vocabulary does not guarantee shared understanding. When introducing AI across professional groups, that distinction becomes a management concern.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Leading AI Adoption in Your Team",
  "place": {
    "name": "Sion",
    "region": "Valais",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Susan Leigh Star and James Griesemer (1989, Social Studies of Science) describe how actors from different social worlds cooperate through “boundary objects” without sharing all the same knowledge."
    },
    {
      "heading": "When transmission is not enough",
      "point": "Paul Carlile (2002, Organization Science), in a study of new product development, shows that professional knowledge is situated in practices and connected to different interests."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that imposing a glossary before deploying AI is enough."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence does not establish",
      "point": "Neither study measures the fidelity of AI-generated summaries or the effectiveness of a glossary in producing them."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Sion",
      "point": "As part of SHR’s programme on leading AI adoption within a team, an exercise in Sion could use anonymised or fictional handover documents from hydropower, healthcare, winegrowing and Alpine tourism."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Griesemer",
      "year": "1989",
      "source": "Social Studies of Science"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Carlile",
      "year": "2002",
      "source": "Organization Science"
    }
  ],
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  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/adoption-ia-equipe/sion",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/sion",
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  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}