Change Implementation: Realizing How Intelligent People Will Undercut Change Implementation

In industries that are made up of very clever folks, change implementation can be particularly challenging. This stems in part from a perception that concepts 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. Actually, the smartest people stand to benefit most, instead of least, from change management.

An excellent example of this is often found in the petrol industry. During well drilling operations, if the hole being drilled is more than some degrees offof vertical it can become aserious problem. These non-vertical holes are called inclined bore holes.

An answer to the physical issues of inclined bore holes was developed and published a while ago. Yet, at a meeting of the Society for petroleum Engineers, a paper was presented that discussed how the industry has principally did not adopt the solution and was still depending on jury-rigged solutions in the field. In principle, a bunch of highly educated, intelligent engineers would have jumped onto the solution and sought to implement industry wide change implementation referring to inclined bore holes.

In practice, extremely clever people tend to have extremely robust opinions relating to how things ought to be done. They may rely on their own judgments and experiences to define their approach to issues, at least in the absence of a widely acknowledged authority in the field. These robust opinions tend to undercut attempts at change implementation. This is particularly true if the change does not comply with given person's opinion about the subject.

If the change involves a grouping of such folks, it can become a very slow process as each person tries to claim their opinion or perception. The employment of change management best practices can help to beat a number of these issues by making the method a methodical effort instead of aplan to convince people one at a time.

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