{
  "title": "Change management: does a successful pilot justify a wider rollout?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/conduite-du-changement-un-pilote-reussi-justifie-t-il-la-generalisation-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-06-03",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A pilot can succeed without demonstrating that a change will work elsewhere. The question is what the experience actually allows us to generalise.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Change Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lausanne",
    "region": "Vaud",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Jerker Denrell (2003, Organization Science) shows through theoretical analysis how the underrepresentation of failures in observed experience can generate misleading beliefs about the factors behind success."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Learning from a case without turning it into proof",
      "point": "James G."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "The convenient conclusion would be that a favourable pilot authorises rollout, while an unfavourable one rules the change out."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot settle",
      "point": "These articles are not experimental evaluations of change management pilots and provide no universal threshold for wider rollout."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lausanne",
      "point": "In Lausanne, an exercise in SHR's « Conduite du changement » programme can start with a real project in a medtech company, a higher education institution, an international sports organisation or a scale-up in the Lake Geneva region."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Denrell",
      "year": "2003",
      "source": "Organization Science"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Tamuz",
      "year": "1991",
      "source": "Organization Science"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 428,
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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."
}