Changes for the Organization that lead to Transformation, Pt. 2

A change that has taken place within companies is the presence of business transformation teams. Whether the team is a short-term team in a small to medium sized company, utilizing business architecture methods - or a larger company with a long-term transformation team or office, with tailored transformation and architecture methodologies, - this addition to an enterprise can lead to organizational transformation.

When an organization has a business transformation team, it can provide a number of benefits to the enterprise.  Business transformation teams can act as a proactive, reactive or even a supportive role.  Business transformation teams can partner with the business to facilitate transformation, helping to identify needs within the organization, acting as a catalyst and providing a support structure to enable business transformation efforts.

As a business transformation team plays a proactive role within the business, the Business Transformation team can identify needs throughout a company.

This information often results or benefits other transformation initiatives.

Business transformation teams often discover these needs by mapping current state processes, searching for integration points or while performing a gap analysis. These steps are used to develop transformation strategies and drive out business capabilities which inform the transformation.

When business transformation teams interact in a reactive role, they can serve the needs of their customers, as a facilitator.  If a business area knows it wants or needs a transformation, the particular line of business can reach out to the business transformation area with the expectations being provided a structure and framework of a success. 

The business transformation team can guide the business area in turning their idea, their future state into a reality. In addition, a business transformation team can assist a business area by appealing to executive leadership.  Transformational efforts that are easily recognized by leadership have a better chance of being supported, funded and socialized throughout the business areas. This support can add to the overall success that a business transformation team has when playing a reactive role.

A business transformation team can also be a catalyst or an advocate. In a support function they can take previously restricted or suppressed ideas and turn them into a transformation. This advocacy can revolutionize a business area, or even an entire company.  A well-respected business transformation team can help facilitate the transformations that are unrecognized, difficult to occur, and difficult to get buy-in from leadership.  

Business Transformation teams can also be leveraged for the case for change, identifying the benefits for the business, and provide coaching to those executing the transformation.

Dedicated transformation teams, which usually consist of Business Architects, Change Managers, subject matter experts, and other more detailed disciplines like process engineers, IT architecture or Experience Architects, have a unique power to drive change, as well as ensure its ongoing success and sustainability.