{"id":3568,"date":"2013-08-15T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2013-08-15T20:05:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:05:37","slug":"contradicting-views-on-future-of-corporate-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/from-our-change-management-consultants\/contradicting-views-on-future-of-corporate-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Contradicting views on future of corporate culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/changemanagementmini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38\" alt=\"Change Management\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/changemanagementmini.jpg\" width=\"97\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>Contradicting views on future of corporate culture: functionally driven variations vs consistent corporate-wide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Extract from strategy+business &#8211; Paul Michelman:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve seen two strong theories about the future of corporate culture recently. Both are compelling, and each comes to a very different conclusion. In other words, we have all the ingredients for a debate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The first argument: Many variations of culture should exist within an organization.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of all the topics you might expect Eric Ries to riff on, corporate culture does not immediately spring to mind. Ries is the author of The Lean Startup and an expert on entrepreneurship and product development. As he argues it, the link between innovation and culture is hard to ignore. If companies\u2014particularly large and mature ones\u2014expect to adopt the sustainable approaches to innovation that Ries believes are critical to their survival, they need to forget about having a consistent set of norms across the full enterprise. Instead, they need strong cultures for their various professional functions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ries\u2019s argument about culture derives from his larger belief that different functions in the organization require different forms of management. The part of the organization that develops new products and launches new lines of business, for example, should not be held to the same set of standards as units that manage mature and stable lines. The same should be true of their cultures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to Ries, a healthy innovation-focused culture will &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>More:<\/strong> <a title=\"http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/blog\/Corporate-Culture-Is-Dea-Long-Live-Corporate-Culture?gko=46810\" href=\"http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/blog\/Corporate-Culture-Is-Dea-Long-Live-Corporate-Culture?gko=46810\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/blog\/Corporate-Culture-Is-Dea-Long-Live-Corporate-Culture?gko=46810<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a92013 Booz &amp; Company Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contradicting views on future of corporate culture: functionally driven variations vs consistent corporate-wide. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[40,167,172,43,41,42,94,95,35,168,173,11,10,12,98,100,226,232,233,229,227,228,230,231,135,128,169,175,131,129,130,132,133,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3575,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/3575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}