Real-Time Strategic Change: Flashback to Whole Systems Change and Relating to Organisation Development Sponsors in India

Abstract

This article intends to introduce and explore the process and execution of change in complex dynamic organisation systems. Transformations are purposeful system-wide journey of organisational change. The emphasis is on the interaction between system elements more than on the analysis of each component. ‘Whole System transformation’ is involved in creating renewed organisations from within itself by enabling or allowing the system to transform itself.

Real-time strategic change is presented as a framework in this context of evolutionary open systems. This article explores organisational change in a richer and more insightful way. The large-scale interaction process (LSIP) is illustrated and explained and its relationship to transformation and change in organisations is explored in a procedural view of this change paradigm.

The authors outline the theoretical aspects of organisational change processes in Kathie Dannemiller’s whole systems thinking intellectual heritage. The article draws from experiences in many organisations that have benefited from this approach over the last 25 years with capability built among hundreds of facilitators to carry this approach forward.

Keywords

Organisational transformation change processes co-creation large-scale interactive process (LSIP)whole systems thinking

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