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).