Strategy Survival Guide
Strategy Survival Guide
Strategy Survival Guide
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• understand that culture;<br />
• understand how the culture contributes to the problem; and<br />
• work out how it needs to change in order for the organisation to deliver the strategy effectively.<br />
The cultural audit analyses different aspects of the organisation’s cultural web:<br />
Stories<br />
Symbols<br />
Rituals and<br />
Routines<br />
Paradigm<br />
Power and<br />
structures<br />
Control<br />
Systems<br />
Organisational<br />
Structures<br />
See this culture web template<br />
A cultural audit can be conducted through:<br />
• Listening to people talk about their organisation<br />
• Observing the organisation day to day operation<br />
• Asking managers to undertake the audit themselves using a checklist<br />
In addition, to identify the dominant culture of the organisation as a whole it is helpful to analyse the way its<br />
strategies have developed historically.<br />
Checklist<br />
Stories<br />
• What core beliefs do stories reflect?<br />
• How pervasive are these beliefs?<br />
• Do stories relate to strengths or weaknesses, success or failures, conformity or mavericks<br />
• Who are the heroes and villains?<br />
• What norms do the mavericks deviate from?<br />
Routines and rituals<br />
• Which routines are emphasised?<br />
• Which would look odd if changed?<br />
• What behaviour do routines encourage?<br />
• What are the key rituals?<br />
• What core beliefs do they reflect?<br />
• What do training programmes emphasise?<br />
• How easy are rituals/routines to change?<br />
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