Executives can build teams that support organizational transformation to provide more innovative solutions and more effective responses to customer needs.
In this article, we aim to blend change management consulting practices with not only practicing leaders but also scholars from leading universities such as but not limited to Harvard Business School, UC Berkeley, USF Muma, Ivey Business School, and Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. We are in the age of disruptions and uncertainty and if we do not create effective transformations, our business will be in chaos. In our recent empirical study in Australia in 2024, we asked 349 Australian senior executives to list the characteristics of an effective company. We found that about 94 percent of them listed a characteristic of high-performance transformation. The C-Suite will find our idea novel in approach and scholars will delve into our idea of high-performance transformation so that they can expand on it, criticize it, extrapolate it, and, in some cases, replicate it. Our main reasoning in this article is based on effective transformation which must be team-oriented. Teams that support organizational transformation can play a critical role in business success for organizations. First, an effective transformation should effectively involve all members of the organization and foster teamwork, and a sense of camaraderie. Second, the development of these teams requires the courage of top managers. Then, organizations can benefit from their teamwork to achieve prosperity and effectiveness. In this novel idea article, we aim to expand Kotter’s change model to address scholars and practitioners worldwide to initiate a new conversation on organizational transformation. Much of what we share in this article has been adapted from our book titled Management Consulting’s Black Box which summarizes our 25 years of management consulting work experience across the globe and will be published in the Business Expert Press soon.
Authors: Mostafa Sayyadi, Michael J. Provitera, Joanna Seraphim
Link: https://doi.org/10.28945/5584
Cite as:
Sayyadi, M., Provitera, M.J., & Seraphim, J. (2025). How to build teams that support organizational transformation. Muma Business Review 9(5). 41-48. https://doi.org/10.28945/5584