How to get Started on Successful and Meaningful Business Transformation – Part 1

Part 1 of this blog post series does a high-level scan of inputs for coming up with an Enterprise Design and Transformation Framework and Method that can result in successful and meaningful business transformations that better support organizations dealing with global and local drivers and better business management and agility.

This article discusses how to get started with enterprise design and transformation that results in meaningful and successful business transformation and change.

Prior to detailing practical approaches for getting started, we need to explore elements of enterprise design and business transformation and change that come from a variety of areas. Some of these include:

• Business Strategy – Values, Principals, Higher Purpose, Culture, Vision, Goals, Objectives, Mission, Strategy, and Tactics
• Business Architecture and Design / Business Modeling
• Organizational Design and Development
• Innovation
• Transformation / Change Management
• Program and Project Management
• Leadership Development
• Positive Relationships and Communications
• Better Business
  • Awareness and Agility
  • Talent/Human Capital Management
  • Effectiveness, Efficiency, Productivity, Performance, and Engagement
  • Integrated Stakeholder View vs Shareholder View
  • Integrated Value Management (based on integrated stakeholder view)
  • Strategy Execution
• Theory of Change
• Stakeholder / Customer Experience
• Thinking Models
  • Design Thinking
  • System Thinking
  • For-The-World Thinking
• Systemic Design
• Frameworks, Standards and Methods
  • Change Management – Prosci ADKAR
  • Project Management Body of Knowledge – PMI – PMBOK
  • Business Architecture – BizBOK, HOBA
  • Enterprise Architecture – TOGAF, Zachman…
  • Business Analysis Body of Knowledge -BABOK
  • Positive Change Management – P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E and Appreciative Inquiry
  • Lean
  • Agile, Scaled/SAFe Agile
  • Innovation Management – d.School…
  • “Canvas-ization”
• Collaboration Models – Competition – Coopetition – Cooperation
• Science and principles based directions and related initiatives
  • Future-Fit
  • B-Corporations
  • Co-operatives
  • Multi-Capitalism
  • Stakeholder-Capitalism
  • r3.0
  • ESG
  • Integrated Reporting <IR>
• Flourishing and Improved Well-being
• Flourishing/Positive Organizations/Workplaces
• Sustainability
• Conscious Business / Capitalism
• Context-Based

Any many more still to be identified and explored.