Question

Compare and contrast four continuous change organization development (OD) interventions. Which are Dynamic Strategy Making, Self-Designing Organizations, Learning Organizations , and Built-to Change Organizations. Describe all 4 IN YOUR OWN WORDS. AT LEAST 300 WORDS THANKS.

Answer 1

Continuous change organization development (OD) interventions extends the transformational changes into non stop process of strategizing , designing and implementing. Instead of focusing on specific organization strategy and design , Continuous change address the underlying design and structure for implement new forms of competitive advantage.
Dynamic Strategy Making:
It uses the process "Guided involvement" in order to help the company to implement proper strategic system.
The strategic direction have the elements such as
Competitive logic: it is the value proposition which connects the organizations ability with market opportunities.
Goals: These are target of firm's achievements, it may be financial or single rallying aims.
Organization: The formal organizational design which align, work, structure, HR practices & management processes to the goals and competitive logic.
Action plans: These are the initiatives & some steps needed to implement the strategies.
The dynamic strategy making will address content of the strategy formulation along with process of strategy implementation.
Self designing organization
Systematic changes in the organization process alters many features in the organization. Self designing organization has the ability to alter themselves fundamentally and continuously. Implementing them is the most participative process where many stakeholders included in the process to set the strategic direction, designing of proper structure & process and implementing them. This process includes considerable innovations & learning as company's gain the capacity to design & implement the major changes continuously.
Learning organizations:
The Learning organization describes the organization with ideal learning environment, which is perfectly tuned with the organizations objective. Here the individuals are continuously expand their capacity in order to create the result which they actually desires, where expansive and new pattern of thinking are developed, where the combined aspirations are set as free. This is different from individual learning, it helps the company to move beyond the current issues to gain the capacity of continuous improvement. It will result in the development of learning organization where empowered team members will take the responsibility of changing organization and learns to do the things better and even better.
Built to change organization:
It includes strategizing the design elements, process & managerial practices which support the organizational change as the primary driver of the effectiveness. This will helps to provide design and implementation guidelines for developing the change capabilities in to the processes, structures and behavior of the firm so that it can simultaneously respond to the rapidly change in environment.