In industries that are composed of extraordinarily clever folk, change implementation can be especially challenging. This stems in part from a perception that ideas about change management or organizational change are only relevant for groups of people with lower intelligence. The actuality is that homo sapiens generally, irrespective of intelligence, benefit from the employment of change management during change implementation. In reality, the smartest folk stand to benefit most, rather than least, from change management.
A good example of this is often found in the petrol industry. During well drilling operations, if the hole being drilled is more than a few degrees offof vertical it can become a significant problem. These non-vertical holes are referred to as inclined bore holes.
A response to the physical issues of inclined bore holes was developed and published a while ago. Yet, at a conference of the Society for petroleum Engineers, a paper was presented that debated the way in which the industry has mostly didn’t adopt the solution and was still relying on jury-rigged solutions in the field. In theory, a group of highly educated, smart engineers would have jumped onto the solution and tried to implement industry wide change implementation regarding inclined bore holes.
In practice, exceedingly clever people have a tendency to have very powerful views per how things ought to be done. They will rely on their lonesome judgments and experiences to define their approach to Problems, at least lacking the presence of a widely acknowledged authority in the field. These powerful views have a tendency to undercut attempts at change implementation. This is especially true if the change doesn’t comply with given person’s opinion on the subject.
If the change involves a grouping of such folks, it can become an extremely slow process as each person makes an attempt to claim their opinion or perception. The employment of change management best practices can help to conquer some of these Problems by making the process a methodical effort rather than a scheme to convince people one at a time.
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