{
  "title": "Project management: has a delivered tool actually been adopted?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-de-projet-un-outil-livre-est-il-vraiment-adopte-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-11-17",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Delivering a tool does not guarantee that people will use it. Research suggests distinguishing individual acceptance from the organisational conditions that enable working practices to change.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Project Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Sion",
    "region": "Valais",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Fred D."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The organisation enables use — or prevents it",
      "point": "Katherine J."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that demonstrating the tool's usefulness and making its use compulsory would be enough."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot settle",
      "point": "Davis's studies concern acceptance of computer systems; extending their findings to every organisational transformation requires caution."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Sion",
      "point": "In Sion, an exercise within SHR's [project management](/formation/gestion-de-projet/sion) programme could examine the adoption of a tool for hydropower maintenance, healthcare coordination, winegrowing traceability or Alpine tourism bookings."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Davis",
      "year": "1989",
      "source": "MIS Quarterly"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Sorra",
      "year": "1996",
      "source": "Academy of Management Review"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 397,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-Training-Project-Management-Sion-gestion-de-projet-un-outil-livre-est-il-vraiment-adopte-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "fr": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-de-projet-un-outil-livre-est-il-vraiment-adopte",
    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-de-projet-un-outil-livre-est-il-vraiment-adopte-en",
    "de": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-de-projet-un-outil-livre-est-il-vraiment-adopte-de",
    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-de-projet-un-outil-livre-est-il-vraiment-adopte-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/gestion-de-projet/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."
}