Transformation As Usual (TAU) Methodology

The Enterprise Transformation Workbench for centralising, controlling and embedding 'Transformation As Usual' throughout organisations.

Modus Transformation As Usual Introduction

In any Business sector we must respond to the need for ongoing change (call it transformation as usual – TAU), and therefore the organisation needs to be ‘change capable’ and ‘change oriented’. This requires quick, easy access to every facet of models, processes, training, documentation, and ways of working that we have created in your original transformation. In other words, a knowledge centre or hub responsive to the need for sustained change. This is a living, breathing foundational ecosystem designed to flex and change with need as the business and operating models respond to the ever-present forces of external disruption. It has the capablity to embed the multidimensional perspectives as below  

Transformation Methodology Steps and Their Importance

Transformation Strategy Hub

Description: Defines the overall transformation vision, objectives, and direction using strategy tools and value chain analysis.

Importance: Ensures alignment between strategy and transformation execution; builds business case & sponsorship.

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Mobilise and Setup Hub

Description: Mobilizes the transformation office (TMO), defines methods and tools, configures access and teams.

Importance:Establishes structure, governance, and the foundational setup for successful transformation delivery.

Portfolio Management Office

Description: Creates a clear, structured program and project hierarchy with PMO governance, charters, and phase definitions.

Importance: Drives control, consistency, and visibility across transformation activities; aligns delivery to strategy.

Operating Model & Business Process Design Hub

Description: Designs the future “To Be” state for people, processes, and experiences; links strategy to operations.

Importance: Provides a blueprint for change; ensures operational readiness and impact planning.

Digital Transformation Assets

Description: Captures and aligns digital requirements, system architectures, data models, and reporting needs.

Importance: Ensures IT and data are embedded in the transformation; supports scalability and digitisation.

Change and Comms Management Hub

Description: Plans and manages change initiatives, engagement activities, and transformation communication.

Importance: Supports stakeholder buy-in, reduces resistance, and ensures awareness across the business.

Implementation and Cutover Hub

Description: Manages solution build, test, go-live, and organisational design alignment, including behavior and emotional readiness.

Importance: Delivers successful implementation; mitigates risk and ensures minimal disruption during cut-over.

Training and Launch Academy

Description: Assesses training needs, delivers transformation learning journeys, and provides users with access.

Importance: Drives capability uplift; prepares the business to adopt and sustain new ways of working.

Adoption and Course Correct

Description: Tracks adoption KPIs, monitors business compliance, and enables real-time adjustments to transformation efforts.

Importance: Ensures benefits realization; allows proactive intervention and continuous alignment with outcomes.

Business Process Continuous Improvement

Description: Embeds ongoing process, product, people, and customer optimisations into BAU using feedback loops and improvement frameworks.

Importance: Establishes Transformation As Usual (TAU); sustains transformation culture and evolves over time.

Integrating crucial multidimensional transformation perspectives

1. Transformation Elements

  • Value Chain Analysis
  • Business Model
  • Transformation Strategy
  • Transformation Strategy
  • Mobilisation
  • Planning
  • Log Management
  • Financial
  • Comms
  • Operating Model
  • Business Design
  • IT Logs
  • Build and Test Management
  • Implementation Management
  • Organisational Change
  • Training
  • HR
  • Transformation Review
  • Optimisation and Governance

2. Multiple Delivery Hubs

  • Group / Corporate Portfolio
  • Business Unit
  • X Business Unit
  • Product / Service
  • ERP Delivery
  • Functional Team Transformation Delivery
  • TOM Delivery
  • Change Delivery
  • Environment Improvement Delivery Corporate Portfolio
  • Merge & De-Merge Portfolio Delivery etc

3. Lens Criteria

  • Region
  • Functional / Teams
  • Category
  • Product
  • Service
  • Customer
  • Supplier
  • Brands
  • Environment

4. Core Dimensions

  • People
  • Process
  • System
  • Data
  • Cost Factor
  • Governance Factor
  • AI Factor

5. OM Components

  • KPI
  • RACI
  • Rules
  • Policy
  • Governance (Any Element from Transformation Assets)
  • TOM Delivery

6. Operating Model OM Instances

  • Live
  • As-Is
  • Transitional
  • To-Be

7. Process Life Cycle

  • New
  • Amend
  • Delete

8. Process Levels

  • L-1 Vision / Strategy
  • L0 Enterprise Capabilities
  • L1 Functional Process Areas
  • L2 Core Business Processes
  • L3 Detailed Activities
  • L4 Transaction Procedures

Transformation As Usual (TAU) Hub and Core Transformation Features

Any seasoned Transformation professional is likely to agree (at least in private) that transformation is something of a super-human task because of its inherent complexity. Understandably, many resort to program and project management solutions (PPM) to try to establish and hold all the threads together, including activities, time, cost and risk. But this still does not link and manage the customer, product, market, financial, systems and organisational interdependencies in one multi-faceted masterpiece. It does not visualise, link and express these in value chains and operating models so that the resultant agenda for change defines every input, output and cause-and-effect logic.

  • In other words, ensuring that every aspect of each dimension is connected in terms of impact logic (cause and effect), mapped onto, and linked with, methods, processes, resources, ways of working and capabilities. If this is omitted or poorly executed
  • Failure is written into the transformation from day one. Fail to plan (absolutely every element) – you plan to fail! The risk of everything falling apart progressively is in direct proportion to the quality of that initial integration.
  • The key driver of success is the degree to which you can achieve true centralisation and integration between thousands of moving parts across all initiatives and projects to deliver the required changes to business and operating models.
  • Modus ETP provides a hub that acts as a focal point for transformation delivery and ongoing optimisation and change. A portal to the collective knowledge and change resources that will enable an organisation to build and sustain its transformation ecosystem and competence over time - we call it 'Transformation as Usual - TAU'.