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When achieving strategic objectives requires organisational change, success depends upon the organisational capability needed to govern, coordinate, and sustain that change across the enterprise.

This website presents a strategy-led conceptual framework for organisational change. Rather than focusing solely on how individual initiatives are delivered, it examines organisational change as an enterprise capability. It explores the relationships between strategy, the Enterprise Ecosystem, Operational Continuity and Governance Logic, distinguishes between First-Order and Second-Order Organisational Change, and explains the organisational capabilities required to govern and sustain change successfully.

The Enterprise Change Office is presented as one possible organisational model through which that capability can be developed, governed and continually improved. The framework itself is independent of any particular organisational structure.

The webpages in the website progressively develop this framework. Each page introduces one foundational concept before showing how it relates to the others, allowing the framework to build systematically from first principles into an integrated view of organisational change.

If your organisation is considering how to strengthen its organisational change capability, evolve an existing PMO, or determine whether an Enterprise Change Office is appropriate, the Services  page explains how I can help. It describes how I work alongside organisations to strengthen the governance, organisational capability, and organisational arrangements needed to support successful organisational change.

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A Definition Of Organisational Change

This website adopts a strategy-led framework that examines the relationships between strategy, the Enterprise Ecosystem, Operational Continuity, Governance Logic, and the Two Orders of Organisational Change.

The Enterprise Change Office

An Enterprise Change Office provides the enterprise capability needed to govern, coordinate, and continually develop organisational change by integrating multiple complementary practice areas.

Why I Use The Term “Enterprise Change Office”

The term Enterprise Change Office is used to distinguish the broader organisational capability required to support organisational change.
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Ecosystem

The Office of Government Commerce And P3O®

The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) was a UK government body established in 2000 to promote efficiency and best practices in public sector procurement, project management, and programme management. One of its significant contributions was the development of the P3O® (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Offices) framework, first published in 2008. This framework provides principles and guidance on designing and operating effective support structures for delivering change. P3O® was created in response to the growing need for organisations to align their strategies with execution and to standardise the roles of PMOs across different contexts.

In 2014, the stewardship of the OGC’s best practice portfolio was transferred to AXELOS, a joint venture between the UK Cabinet Office and Capita. AXELOS continues to maintain and publish the official P3O® guidance, with the most recent version being “Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices: P3O® Guidance” (AXELOS, 2013).

The guidance outlines a hierarchy of structures, which is summarised in Exhibit 1. It also notes that “projects” can stand alone and do not need to be part of a “programme”.

Exhibit 1: P30® Hierarchy