Guiding Change

The top two levels of this 7 level hierarchy provide the potential for change and get drawn into any significant change process.

L6: Representation

L7: Transformation

Representation:  Level-6 Change

Representation is proposed as the formal name for the Level 6 category in Change PH3. It appears to be:

1. the awareness of what and how change can occur;
2. often implicit and subject to unconscious biases.

There does not appear to be a suitable alternate name.
Synonyms include:model, depiction, presentation, description, portrayal, specification, delineation. However, each of these terms has implications that are not helpful.

Function. Representation entails depicting the existing and desired future state in its relevant aspects.

Essence: Representation is about design to enable explicit deliberate change.

Pressure: If the analysis in the Architecture Room is correct, representation is primarily influenced by the autonomy pressure emerging from RL6-Purpose.

Result: An abstraction of the entity's state and relation to the environment that determine what is likely and possible.

Use: Representation is stimulated whenever there is a need to develop a significant change with a recognition of its difficulties.

Preoccupation: Determining what suitable frameworks and relevant parameters should be applied.

Hope: For realistic discriminations and depictions of possible scenarios.

Fear: Misunderstanding and misperception.

Failure: If representation is faulty or lacking when necessary, there will be confusion.

Responses: Positive is conviction. Negative is disorientation.

Transformation:  Level-7 Change

Transformation is proposed as the formal name for the Level 7 category in Change PH3. It appears to be:

1. an imagined absolute maximum or ideal change for an entity;
2. what is commonly both desired and feared.

There does not appear to be a suitable alternate name.
Synonyms include:conversion, transubstantiation, metamorphosis, transmutation, transfiguration. However, each of these terms have implications that are not helpful.

Function. Transformation entails changing the fundamental structure and functioning of the entity, that is to say an identity change.

Essence: Transformation is the imagination of a conceivable change that transcends the present situation.

Pressure: If the analysis in the Architecture Room is correct, transformation is primarily influenced by the selflessness pressure emerging from RL7-Willingness.

Result: A state that expresses a new identity for the entity without the experience of a loss of integrity.

Use: Transformation is activated if there is a major failure or loss of relevance, often in a fast-changing environment. The current entity and its state then need to be re-imagined.

Preoccupation: Challenges to the continuity, coherence or value of the present state of the entity.

Hope: For renewal via a new viable identity that enables continuity.

Fear: Loss of integrity and continuity.

Failure: If transformation cannot be ensured when necessary, the entity will become irrelevant and probably extinct.

Responses: Positive is openness. Negative is denial.

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Have reached Transformation-L7, there does not appear to be any logically or imaginatively higher level of change and the hierarchy is therefore complete.

• Review the hierarchy of change-PH3.

Originally posted: 30-May-2024