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Table 20 Summary of the identified associations between boundary activities and readiness
for change program implementation
Dimensions of
readiness for change
program
implementation
Intent Resources Autonomy
Boundary activity
types
Visible need and pressure for change and
sustained momentum
Clear and shared vision, a sense of direction,
and commonly accepted goals
Purposeful plan for change content, change
process, and program structure
Skillful and charismatic leaders, incl. both
program owner and program manager
Dedicated program team(s) with explicitly
committed, motivated members
Visible senior management support and
involvement
Receptive environment in terms of prepared
recipients of change
Legitimate position in the organization
Authority and autonomy to realize change
Positioning and
negotiating
X X X X
Linking X X
Task coordinating
Information seeking X X
Resource seeking
X
Informing X X X
Legitimating and
committing
X X X X
Influencing
Guarding X X
Enclosing X X X
As Table 20 shows, the boundary activity types demonstrate unique
patterns in how they were analyzed to be associated with the different
aspects of readiness for change program implementation. Most of the ten
boundary activity types were associated with several aspects of readiness,
typically representing more than one of the three main dimensions (intent,
resources and autonomy). This finding supports the earlier observation that
boundary activities may simultaneously have several intents regarding the
change program’s progress, and thus may contribute to creating readiness
for change in several ways.
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