Organization Transformation

DEFINITION:
It is a term referring collectively to such activities as reengineering, redesigning and redefining
business systems.
Organization Transformation can occur in response to or in anticipation major changes in the organization’s
environment or technology.
Kinds Of Interventions
1. Organization culture.

2. Self- Designing.

3. Organization learning and

knowledge.
Characteristics of Transformational Change
1. Change is triggered by environmental and internal disruption.
Transformation change occurs in response to atleast kinds of disruption.

1. Industry discontinuities

2. Product lifecycle shifts

3. Internal company dynamics

2. Change is systemic and revolutionary.
Transformational change involves reshaping the organization’s
culture and design element.
These change can be characterstized as systemic and
revolutionary cause nature of the organisation is called altered
fundamentally.

3. Change demands a new organizing paradigm.

Organization undertaking transformational change are, by
definition, involved in 2nd order or gamma types of change.
Gamma change involves discontinuous shifts in mental or
organizational frameworks.
4. Change is driven by senior executives and line management.

They are responsible for the strategic direction and operation

of the organization and actively lead the transformation.
The critical role of executives leadership in transformational
change is clearly emerging.
There are 3 key role of executive leadership of such change.
Envisioning

Energizing

Enabling
5. Continuous learning and change.
Transformational change requires considerable innovation and
learning.
Organisation members must learn how to enact the new
behaviors required to implement new strategy direction.
INTERVENTIONS
1. Culture Change
Culture change is the most common form of organization transformation.
The number of culture change interventions has grown accordingly.
Organization culture also the focus of growing research and protecting
these implied rights.

2. Self-Designing Organizations
A growing number of researchers and practitioners have called for self-
designing organizations that have built-in capacity to transform themselves to
achieve high performance in today’s competitive and changing environment.
Interventions cont…

Demand of
transformational
change

Self- Designing
Organisation

Application
stage
Interventions cont…
a) Demand of Transformational change.
There are 5 requirements for organisational transformation:
i. Systematic change
ii. Dynamic and iterative
iii. Organizational learning
iv. Multiple stakeholders
v. Multiple level of the organization
b) Application Stages

Implement and
Assessing

Designing

Laying the foundation

3. Organization learning and knowledge management.
The 3rd organizational transformation intervention is aimed at
helping organizations develop and use knowledge to change and
improve the themselves continually.
It includes 2 interrelated change processes.

PROCESSES

Organization KNOWLEDGE
learning MANAGEMENT