I am wondering if given the constant change we face these days, whether we should consider ourselves to be perpetually in the midst of a transformation.
Not too long ago we were moving our organizations to the Services paradigm (SOA for example). I do not believe we have all either embraced it completely or completed the transformation associated with that. Now we are in the midst of the Web 2.0 phenomenon, or the transformation associated with Social Technologies, for example. I believe it is a radically different enough way of doing things, that moving to this new paradigm constitutes a transformational effort.
By ‘transformation’ I mean holistic change. where it is not just an issue of the adoption of a new technology, but revisiting all aspects of processes, systems, organizational design and so forth, looking for opportunities to conceive them anew. The other connotation of the word is that orchestrating such change usually is a complex effort.
This question came to my mind from an observation related to Social Technology services that we offer. Is it enough to help our clients with adoption, or should we, depending on their maturity of course, be preparing them for a transformational effort? I believe, that only when one goes beyond simple adoption can an organization obtain the true benefits of any new paradigm.
And, then the issue of perpetual transformation. If new paradigms that have the potential to radically reinvent the way we do things, keep emerging even before we have completely realized the promise of earlier ones, should we just create ‘Offices of Transformation’ that keep us perpetually in that mode of being?
I think that way, we might have better results with delivering on their promise and potential.
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