Organizational transformation encompasses activities like reengineering and redesigning in response to environmental or technological changes, focusing on culture, self-designing, and learning interventions. Transformational change is characterized by systemic, revolutionary shifts driven by leadership with an emphasis on continuous learning and innovation. Key requirements include systematic and iterative change involving multiple stakeholders at various organizational levels.

1. Organization
Transformation

2. 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.

3. Kinds of Interventions
1. Organization culture
2. Self-Designing
3. Organization
learning and
knowledge

4. Characteristics of Transformational Change
1. Change is triggered by environmental and internal
disruption.
 Transformational change occurs in response to
atleast kinds of disruption:- 1. Industry discontinuities
2. Product lifecycle shifts
3. Internal company
dynamics

5. 2. Change is systemic and revolutionary.
 Transformational change involves reshaping the
organization’s culture and design element.
 These changes can be characterized as systemic and
revolutionary cause nature of the organization is
altered fundamentally.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8.  There are 3 key roles of executive leadership of such
change:- 1.
Envisioning
2.
Energizing
3.
Enabling

9. 5. Continuous learning and change.
 Transformational change requires considerable
innovation and learning.
Organizational members must learn how to enact the
new behaviors required to implement new strategy
direction.

10. Interventions
1. Culture Change
 Culture change is the most common form of
organization transformation. The number of culture
change interventions has grown accordingly.
 Org. culture is also the focus of growing research and
protecting these implied rights.

11. Interventions cont…
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.

12. Demand of
transformational
change
Application
stage
Self-
Designing
Organization

13. a) Demand of transformational change
 There are 5 requirements for organizational
transformation:-
i. Systematic change
ii. Dynamic and iterative
iii. Organizational learning
iv. Multiple stakeholders
v. Multiple level of the organization

14. b) Application Stages
Laying the
foundation
Designing
Implement
and Assessing

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

16. Processes
Knowledge
management
Organization
learning