Skip to main content

Five Truths of Change

 We must no longer see the world as a machine with isolated, separate parts needing to be “fixed.” Rather, we must recognize that each part is connected to a greater whole. 
“whole system transformation” is more than simply a change that affects the entire system, it means that the entire system is involved in creating itself anew. 
The five truths of change are:
System: A system is comprised of a set of parts or components that are related or interconnected in such a way as to form an organic whole that focuses on performing a function. Thus, applied to organizations of people, the term “system” means that it is composed of two or more people, and perhaps other elements, connected for the purpose of performing a function. 
Purpose: The transformation is clearly purposeful. if you don’t know where you’re going, you literally won’t know when you get there. And this is why having a clear purpose is so important. Purpose is defined as a positive difference that occurs through the transformation.
Journey: The transformation is a dynamic journey.Whole system transformation is comprised of more than just an event. It is a purposeful system-wide journey of change. The journey is characterized by key actions, important questions, critical decisions, and ways to evaluate progress at each step along with way. A transformation journey is an ongoing process, not a one- or two-day strategic planning session.
Theory: Transformation is guided by theory. The next truth is the notion that the founders ground themselves in the building blocks of theoretical frameworks. Each of the founders and all of their followers honor the work of the people who went before them, who developed theories. 
Values: Transformation is shaped by values. Each of the founders of whole system transformation methodologies that we studied is profoundly and consistently driven by values. We as consultants must live our values with every breath we take, every word we utter, and every design we use. When we are intervening in a system and we always are, it is particularly critical to live our people values at every step


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

17/06/2019 – M2018OD009

Today is my first class of Large Scale Intervention Process . I was not able to attend the class because I was on the way to Mumbai. I didn’t get a train ticket so I have to travel through bus and bus reached Mumbai 3 hrs late. So for this class I didn’t have any idea what happened but I read a chapter of the book my group has assigned for me for the next class. The chapter was on whole system transformation and the book talks about five truths of whole system transformation. I found it very common because most of the OD diagnosing model also talked about these truths. I came to know through the book that there are some 5 to 6 masters in OD who gave these truths and based on these truths anybody can create his/her own model. These five truths are System, Purpose, Journey, Theory, Values .i.e. Every transformation should have systemic view, try to assess the problem with whole system perspective, It should have purpose driven, Transformation should have been proper planned and based...
2 comments
Read more

Large System Interventions - my first understandings

I would like to use this post and the further threads to help us get a clarity on the Term LSI and a bit into what interventions are? Large system intervention, why do we call it as such? Large - The term large here refers to groups or units that are beyond the scope of an individual's understanding. When we say Large it means that it is not the capability of one person to work on the unit/entity because one person cannot grasps its magnitude, System - we use the term system here because large units or entities interact wth their environments and also interact internally with their parts. In large entities there are two aspects that become part  of the change 1) The interaction with and balance with the external environment 2) the fit of all its internal parts A large system intervention aims to take up two  key aspects,the organisation environment relationship and the interaction of its internal components Interventions - Intervention means to...
2 comments
Read more

How to calculate ROI of Large system change intervention?

It’s true that companies spend a lot on large system change interventions; this makes it very crucial that companies are able to measure the added value. Companies always need to know if they are getting return on investment; even if we are getting ROI how can we calculate it? One of the reasons that ROI can be particularly difficult to calculate is the different factors that impact an intervention. These factors can be time and quality but are not essentially quantity and money therefore is difficult to put into a basic equation of: output / input equals productivity (output/input = value). Real problem here is that if we consider that if money as input, output will be money too. However this is not always the case in terms of large system change intervention. So how do we measure an impact which can be expressed as currency value? Calculating the full financial ROI of Large System interventions has been elusive resulting in undermining the perceived credibility of large syst...
1 comment
Read more