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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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Why you need a faster, more nimble culture

Jeffrey Phillips

If change is so prevalent and competitors are constantly entering and leaving markets, we don't need to worry about change management, we need to be change agents and create change capacity in the business. But you'll need to focus on at least one other major change barrier, and that's your corporate culture.

Culture 157
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Cultivating Success: Exploring the Link Between Organizational Culture and Business Performance

Leapfrogging

Unpacking Organizational Culture Defining Organizational Culture Organizational culture embodies the collective values, beliefs, and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.

Culture 100
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Introducing the Market-Creating Innovation Bootcamp for Policymakers

Christensen Institute

Market-creating innovations transform complicated and expensive products into simple and affordable ones so more people in society can access them. In short, market creating innovations are necessary to create prosperity. In short, market creating innovations are necessary to create prosperity.

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Organize innovation to fit your strategy & culture.

Leapfrogging

That’s because they try to apply processes and structures that don’t fit their business strategies and cultures. They force crowdsourcing into their top-down decision-making cultures. These individuals, (technologists, consumer insights experts, marketers, manufacturing specialists, etc.) Innovation Councils.

Culture 130
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Returning to the Hierarchy of Business Ecosystems

Paul Hobcraft

Organizations can leverage these insights to gain strategic positioning and actively shape market dynamics by working through the different ecosystems in a way that they can (increasingly) relate to. Governance failures are a significant contributor and impact 85% of all Ecosystems that fail.

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Building a Startup in a Tough Funding Environment

Harvard Business Review

But founders increase their odds of success by proving product-market fit on a budget, conservatively fundraising, and focusing on culture and governance early on. When fundraising dries up and uncontrollables become more prevalent, the challenge is even greater.

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