Transforming Culture: Is Your Organizational Culture an Asset or a Hindrance?
Aligning Culture to Your Strategy
Your organization's culture is the company's DNA, comprising of the values, assumptions, behaviors, and attitudes of the founder and the team. It serves as the cohesive force uniting individuals and distinguishes you from your competition.
We typically see that when organizational culture harmonizes with your business strategy, it catalyzes growth, enhances employee engagement, mitigates risk, and fortifies your brand. Conversely, when there's misalignment, gaps and incongruences it can work in the opposite force and pose a significant barrier to success.
Picture two merging companies lacking a collaborative culture post-acquisition, a pharmaceutical enterprise striving for first-mover advantage on a new drug sans an innovation mindset, or a software firm lacking agility in its culture. Without cultural congruence, realizing business objectives becomes daunting, if not unattainable.
How Do We Align Culture to Purpose and Strategy?
Many companies, for a multitude of reasons simply allow culture to evolve naturally, resulting in an unproductive weak culture or a counter productive informal culture which can be seen to emerge at the whim of external forces and/or the egotistical desires of 'players' and personalities from within the company. It's only through comprehensive and deliberate planning that organizational culture can truly become a driver of business strategy.
Define, Design and Nurture it
Working on the insightful cusp of academia and operations, only the most reliable and valid tools are used to identify incongruence or organizational gaps in the transformation of your organization's inputs to outputs? How does your culture play key role in that? Diligently, we tap in and identify on every level, the symptoms, the clues and collect the data using diagnostical tools, cultural assessments and 'Appreciative Inquiry' workshops to get the 'whole system in one room'.
We stand out as true Organizational Development Practitioners who are committed to a comprehensive approach to culture transformation. Our methodology from the start, empowers you to strategically deploy a spectrum of structural and behavioral tactics, to enact the targeted shifts in individual and organizational dynamics—fueling tangible, enduring change.