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-Present day´s crucial corporate competition proving the real time presence of `Darwin's theorySurvival of the fittest` in the global industrial scenes. Consequently, the managers are pressed hard to take smart steps for organizational continuous improvement. The above causes organizational chaos, since humans have the innate habit to resist the change.The article suggests the logic over the change leader´s selection of the best suited transformational criteria from the variety of change management models for smart organizational transformation process. The study results support the selection of ADKAR Model being one of the best to deal with the OSUVA case conditions due to having an ability to highlight the problem areas at each change process stage through barrier point identification perspective.

This paper evaluates the role of strategic thinking to support multinational organization's new product development initiatives. Furthermore, it emphases how organizational commitment to empower its work team's leadership capability can be highlighted in the form of weak areas through specialized survey. The research outcomes highlighted the gaps in the subject organization's NPD initiatives through drawing attention to the grey areas present in the overall corporate strategic leadership environment of its three targeted work locations (i.e. Finland, the UK, and -Norway). Such areas include the potential of the company's internal communication system, data collection and record keeping capability, management's approach to the potential of new idea generation and employees' empowerment. The referred areas are directly linked to the subject company's new product development strategy, corporate initiatives and operational growth.

The study provides basis to measure ‘learning effectiveness’ through directional‘ leadership Management Options’ (i.e. Controlling Management, Passive Management and Transformational Leadership) in teams reflecting ‘Individual Differences’ to ensure organizational competitiveness. The study results confirmed that Transformational leadership provides strong basis for gaining and displaying exceedingly higher performance levels by even the ordinary team performers marked by ’‘Individual Differences’ phenomenon among the organizational human resource clusters.

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