Informed Governance of Enterprise Transformations

Modern day enterprises are confronted with a variety of challenges, forcing them to continuously transform themselves to better meet these challenges. The diversity of the challenges and the resulting desires to transform (parts of) the enterprise, make it desirable to align all required and desired transformations in such a way that they complement each other rather than nullifying, or even undermining, each other’s effects. Therefore, mature governance of these enterprise transformations is absolutely crucial. We will argue that this requires a transformation authority, being the organisational function which is responsible for the governance of enterprise transformations. In this chapter, our driving interest is the implementation of mature transformation authorities.

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