{
  "title": "Change management: should a trial be judged by its immediate returns?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/conduite-du-changement-juger-un-essai-sur-son-rendement-immediat-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-10-13",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "An experiment can temporarily reduce performance while generating useful learning. That does not exempt it from evaluation, but it requires a distinction between what it delivers and what it helps establish.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Change Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Sion",
    "region": "Valais",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "James G."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism: learning to prefer the familiar",
      "point": "Daniel A."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that every experiment should be shielded from demands for results."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What these studies cannot determine",
      "point": "These articles primarily offer modelling and theoretical analysis, not an optimal experiment duration validated for every sector."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Sion",
      "point": "As part of SHR's “Change Management” programme, an exercise applicable in Sion is to prepare a trial brief that separates operational results from expected learning before the trial begins."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "March",
      "year": "1991",
      "source": "Organization Science"
    },
    {
      "authors": "March",
      "year": "1993",
      "source": "Strategic Management Journal"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 405,
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  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/conduite-du-changement/sion",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/sion",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}