title: Planned change
text: # Planned change
  
  One of the foundational definitions in the field of organizational development (aka OD) is planned change:
  
  According to Beckard defines that “Organization Development is an effort planned, organization-wide, and managed from the top, to increase organization effectiveness and health through planned interventions in the organization's 'processes,' using behavioral-science knowledge.”
  
  -- Beckard, “Organization development: Strategies and Models”, Reading, MA: soweto mbeya, 2013, p. 9.
  
  To understand the practice of OD, some of the key terms, embedded in James's formulation, include:
  
  * Planned - carefully thought through; based on data; documented
  * Effectiveness - as measured by actual organizational performance versus desired organizational performance
  * Health - as measured by the organization's ability to respond, grow and adapt in its environmental context
  * Intervention - the specific action(s) selected for implementation that are intended to bring about the envisioned change
  * Processes - how work gets done in an organization; e.g. delivery of service, billing, repair, etc.
  