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The five types of Business Transformation
Business Transformation is Globalization, competitive pressure, digital revolution, continuous innovation, etc. Perpetual socio-economic changes impact the activity and performance of the company, then faced with the need to transform to remain competitive in its market. They operate within organizations, impact managerial working methods, disrupt cultural benchmarks, modify business processes and take advantage of new technologies, most often next to the backdrop of the digital revolution.
1. Organizational Transformation
The starting point for any change in a business, organizational transformation consists of rethinking an organization’s structure, mode of operation, and professional practices to do better and differently. Spurred on by the vision of the general management, organizational transformation is a continuous and evolving process whose center is the collaborator: adhesion and commitment on his part are the main challenges to guarantee its success.
For example, in the distribution sector, the introduction of versatility and the development of new services imply different work processes, a more collaborative and more autonomous operation, that is, a transformation of the organization in-depth activity.
2. Managerial Transformation
Control, obedience, and immediate execution have long been the benchmark in management. The company must now adapt to complex societal and environmental issues to be in tune with reality. The new generations have indeed shaken up the codes of the hierarchy and internal relations. Hierarchical layers are shrinking; validation circuits shorten, the number of intermediaries reduces, and the managerial function and its methods deeply question: a system, relatively rigid and unilateral, based on the organization and the coaching his team, the manager switches to a leadership model that requires unlearning his way of living and functioning at work.
Promoting communication, collaboration, and accountability, today’s manager also has the task of detecting and retaining talent, growing while inspiring to develop and maintain commitment. Organizational transformation is thus a prerequisite based on sharing information, explanation, and persuasion, intended to ensure a more global change of the company.
3. Cultural Transformation
The cultural transformation consists of changing ways of thinking, organizing, and acting. It is the source and consequence of the rules that govern the company’s life, as much in its structure. It, therefore, introduces a notion of rupture in the recurrence of daily behavior. Today, changing the corporate culture amounts to modifying an individual. And also, collective state of mind, achieving well-being, and combining freedom and sustainable performance. It can last awake to 5 years, as its implementation is delicate.
Driven by a prior managerial transformation and driven by a vision and values that make sense, it involves action, reaction, confrontation, and cooperation. This corresponds to a reframing of the organization by the evolution towards more accountability, a broader scope, meaning, and values, as opposed to simply prescribing the tasks to perform. It is essential to assess organizational maturity and current culture. And also, then set out the vision and values. However, the path then consists of learning new relational modes, new modes of reasoning, new collective capacities. It illustrates the transformation in itself!
Cultural transformation takes on its whole meaning in the context of the merger of two societies with different cultures. However, these two cultures must evaluate in such a way as to promote cooperation to manage differences and lead to a new way of thinking together.
4. Information Systems Transformation
At the heart of business change, and an essential lever for growth, the transformation of information systems. These impacts all of the company’s resources that enable information management: technologies, processes, and individuals. It is the consequence of the development of digital technology, the explosion of available data, and storage capacities. The transformation of information systems allows the company to differentiate itself. Moreover, thanks to many applications such as digitizing services, securing processes, sharing data, and pooling information. It also represents an essential distribution channel: e-commerce, multi-channel, web services. IT transformation must anticipate the risk of being suffered and not understood by all the employees who carry it.
5. Business Process Transformation
The transformation of a business course consists of moving from a function-oriented vertical vision to a business-oriented transversal vision. It is about automating and securing specific repetitive tasks with low added value. However, the most often thanks to the digitalization of the tools related to these tasks. The goal? To concentrate on its core business so that the company gains in productivity and competitiveness.
Which processes will help you save time, accelerate a return on investment, streamline an action or save resources? Identifying these potentials is necessary to combine the operational model. And also, the technological choices, and the implementation plan adapted to your business process transformation needs and relevant to the business strategy.
Today, movement is the engine of the company, and the transformation is permanent. Whether it is to respond to the new challenges of the market and competition, include new managerial modes of operation. They develop new cultural benchmarks, and take advantage of new technologies – computer and digital – the objective is to strengthen its competitiveness in its markets.
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