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The answer is: 10 years to change a culture

Jeffrey Phillips

Many of us who work in the consulting and strategy space often talk about the difficulties in understanding and more importantly, changing a corporate culture. That is, we want the culture to adapt to market needs and changes that everyone can see but inertia keeps the company from making.

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Soren Kaplan’s April 2015 Leapfrogging Newsletter

Leapfrogging

The most innovative companies today realize that competitive differentiation comes as much from how they innovate as it does from what they’re innovating. 7 Millennials Who Are Too Busy Changing The World To Take Selfies. Changing the nature of board engagement -5 tips for directors and CEOs to make the most of limited time.

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Nomination Wanted: 2015 Thinkers50

Matthew May

Contributor: The New York Times, Strategy+Business, Fast Company. Author, THE SHIBUMI STRATEGY: A Powerful Way to Create Meaningful Change (Jossey-Bass, 2010). NOMINATIONS CLOSE JULY 31, 2015. Regular contributor: The Rotman Magazine; HBR Blogs; AMEX Open Forum; 99U. That’s it! 30 seconds, max. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!

LEAN 100
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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

This can be especially dangerous when the problem they are avoiding is that they are being disrupted , other companies are out-innovating them, an important project is off-target or performance KPIs are falling behind. Following the Dieselgate scandal, questions abounded about how such a culture could have grown, and what needed to change.

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Sometimes, flat hierarchies can hurt innovation in Start-ups

Idea to Value

However, eventually as more employees join the company, the research shows that without management layers being added, employees become unable to organise themselves to actually deliver projects. It can be a fine balancing act, especially if the moment when the company needs to transition to adding managerial layers comes as a surprise.

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Walmart: How an Innovator in Arkansas Continues to Change our World

IdeaScale

Later the company would buy aircraft second-hand to fly managers out to stores. In 2005, the company’s CEO decided to set the company on a path to becoming completely green, with no waste and the stores running on renewable power. By 2015, it led corporate America in solar capacity and is branching out into energy storage.

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The 2015 Global Innovation 1000 Study from Strategy&

Innovation Excellence

The geographic footprint of innovation is changing dramatically as research and development programs become more global. An overwhelming 94 percent of the world’s largest innovators now conduct elements of their R&D programs abroad, according to the 2015 Global Innovation 1000 study, our annual analysis of corporate R&D spending.

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