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Organization Change and Development

Notes  Priority setting and group action planning (duration is 1 hr and 15 minutes)
 Immediate follow-up by Top Team (1 to 3 hrs)
 Progress Review (2 hours)
 The fourth major activity focuses on next generation step.

Before the conference ends, volunteers agree to document the meeting, communicate with
others, and to carry forward the next action step.
These above mentioned steps represent the flow of the activities for the confrontation meeting
and it is believed to be the excellent way to get fast results leading towards organisation
improvement.

9.3 Strategic Management Activities

Many OD programs and interventions are directed towards the internal workings of the
organisation. OD thus also need to develop outward looking interventions directed towards
environmental analysis and strategic planning to ensure that the organisation is in synchrony
with its environment.
A strategic planning technique developed by Thomas uses a series of two day meeting with the
top policy maker.

Notes Open system policy is another technique developed by Charles Krone where the
top team develops a description of the expectations and environmental demands of
environmental domains and internal groups.

Stream Analysis

Stream analysis is a method useful in planning behavioral, structural, and technical changes:
 Begins by identifying behavioral, technological, and structural interventions that
organization can implement as part of the OD program.
 Helps the organization to diagnose and plan interventions over a period of time.
 Provides a graphical portrayal of the changes and allows for progress in implementing
specific changes to plotted.
As developed by Jerry Porras, stream analysis, although complicated and somewhat difficult to
use is a valuable intervention.

Model for thinking about change and for managing change. Stream analysis is a system for
graphically displaying the problem of the organisation, examining the interconnections between
the problems, identifying the core problems and graphically tracking the corrective actions
taken to solve the problem.

As the problems are categorized, they are placed on the stream charts in their appropriate
columns. An analysis of the entire set usually reveals much overlap among the problems and
then helps to segregate the unique issues for the considerations.

The Stream Analysis approach to organizational change was developed by Professor Jerry
Porras, Professor Emeritus at Stanford Graduate school of Business. It is an exciting alternative
to the usual "top down" approach driven by outside experts. It is a technique for discovering core

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