{
  "title": "Change management: should we preserve the reasons behind decisions?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/conduite-du-changement-conserver-les-raisons-des-decisions-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-02-12",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Projects retain decisions more readily than the reasons behind them. That distinction matters when a team needs to reconsider a choice.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Change Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lausanne",
    "region": "Vaud",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "James P."
    },
    {
      "heading": "When experience becomes a rule without an explanation",
      "point": "Barbara Levitt and James G."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that every exchange and every rejected option should be documented."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot prescribe",
      "point": "Both articles are conceptual and review contributions, not trials comparing different decision-log formats."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lausanne",
      "point": "As part of SHR's change management programme, an exercise applicable in Lausanne would be to maintain a concise log of consequential decisions: the chosen option, a rejected alternative, the pivotal assumption and the condition for reconsideration."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Ungson",
      "year": "1991",
      "source": "Academy of Management Review"
    },
    {
      "authors": "March",
      "year": "1988",
      "source": "Annual Review of Sociology"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 420,
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  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation-conduite-du-changement-lausanne",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/lausanne",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}