As organization development (OD) practitioners, we are helping make OD a discipline accessible to everyone in the organization. We help our clients to lead, work effectively with others, run productive meetings, and build successful organizations. With recent on leadership development, management best practices, and change management capabilities, many are integrating organization development practice into their work. How do we as OD practitioners capitalize on this growing awareness and capability and help organizations increase their maturity in using OD to build and sustain effective organizations? In response to this question, I have developed the Enterprise Organization Development Maturity Model, a model used to assess and develop organization development capability across an enterprise.
The model has five maturity levels:
And five enabler levels:
My premise for developing the Enterprise Organization Development Maturity Model is that the more people who use OD practices as a natural part of their work, the more visible and prevalent OD will become. And the more visible and prevalent the field of OD becomes, the more it can be recognized as the central discipline to creating and maintaining healthy organizations.
Read my published article, Maturing Enterprise Organization Development Capability, for a detailed description of the model.