Consultation in this area focuses on helping leadership teams and employees create fundamental change in how the business unit works. Included in this are processes for visioning, preferred futuring, affirming core values and core purpose, examining the work unit’s current reality of threats and opportunities and surveying and assessing the work unit’s current culture or climate.

Action plans for change may include developing a new strategic direction, revamping systems and structure to support the strategy, aligning goals, objectives and measures and transforming the business unit’s culture.

Leadership and work unit teams involved in Strategic Organizational Development examine the possibility of creating change in the following areas:

Programatic Change: Our Strategic Organizational Development process is also used for helping organizations embarking on major programmatic change. We help our clients better lead and manage the implementation of new technology, enterprise software solutions, lean/six sigma, team based management, and other such initiatives. We help them see that the goal is not to implement these programs. Rather, the goal is use these programs to create an organization that is more productive and a better place in which to work.

New Venture Development: In addition to being an effective process for ensuring successful mergers, restructuring efforts and multi-organization business teams, our approach to Strategic Organizational Development has proven to be highly effective for New Venture Development. It helps entrepreneurial start-ups become a business and be managed like a business.