Developing strategic processes for change in top management teams

Describes the non-prescriptive approach which the authors have used successfully as the basis for their interventions as culture-change consultants and management development practitioners in the UK public sector. The requirement has been to help top management to develop an effective strategic-change management process to achieve organizational transformation. Key elements of the approach are: simultaneous interventions at the levels of top-team dynamics, cultural values and strategic planning; the collaborative management of an interactive top-down bottom-up process; and the application of a unique combination of technologies in the cultural values survey (CVS) and strategic options development and analysis (SODA).