Implementation: The Moment of Change

Abstract

Having access to a good problematic on change and a solid methodology for analysing organisations is one thing. Implementing change is quite another, and far from easy, as all those interested in the question have been able to see, whether observers or practitioners. On all sides, there is great reticence to accept to ‘launching’ oneself into the process, which no doubt explains the amount of time and energy spent on drawing up plans which are endlessly being written and are never finally applied. In terms of change more than anything else, the best is the enemy of the good and finicky perfectionism is a powerful factor of immobilism. As everybody shares the same fears at the moment of undertaking something, it is often enough to show managers that all is not ready, that the different steps are neither clear nor under control, that one is not guaranteed the agreement and support of such and such a category, for everything to be blocked and transformations to be adjourned sine die.