organizational culture (16)

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Creativity is a key driver of innovation, enabling organizations to stay ahead in an ever-changing business environment. However, cultivating creativity requires more than just hiring creative people. It demands a supportive environment and the right combination of skills and processes that encourage innovation.

Teresa Amabile’s Componential Theory of Creativity, introduced in 1983, offers a powerful framework for understanding how creativity works. Amabile’s research reveals that creativity aris

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10847231085?profile=RESIZE_710xDiversity and Inclusion are 2 interdependent concepts.  Never

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In the current era, which is driven by Technology and Innovation, companies can only thrive if they are quick, flexible, and capable of learning and adapting quickly.

Establishing approaches that offer flexibility and agility to a team or organization is essential for businesses to succeed in the current business climate.

Organizations are now aware of this and have included Agile methodology into their Operations in order to respond swiftly to environments that undergo rapid change.  The followi

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10841990287?profile=RESIZE_710xA robust, positive Organizational Culture promotes employee satisfaction with

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 Obtaining the title of Most Innovative Company of the Year is the aspiration of the vast majority of businesses.

In addition to selecting the most innovative companies of 2014, Boston Consulting Group's (BCG) innovation-focused research in 2014—consisting of more than 750 businesses in 17 diverse markets—revealed a number of surprising findings.

Clearly, the organizations that led the Innovation ranking utilized a methodical approach to managing Innovation. The study indicated that culture is a

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3 Phases of Managing Disruption

10258043870?profile=RESIZE_400xRecessions compel leaders of practically all organizations around the world to consider the consequences of a deeply disruptive crisis.

When confronted with a crisis, some leaders shine, causing their companies to grow stronger. Some appear to be stumbling. Others are merely bystanders while their organizations crumble.

Organizations that survive major disruptions are likely to emerge stronger and better prepared to predict and prepare for the next one.

Leaders of organizations are ultimately re

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6 Rs of Behavioral Change

Business Transformation initiatives are typically undertaken to solve a pressing issue, bring about improved performance, or to serve customers better.  A critical element of the success of such initiatives entails transforming the existing behaviors of the employees across the organization.  However, this isn’t a straightforward task.

Attitudes and practices get reinforced in people by following established routines day in and day out.  Such practices become a part of an Organizational Culture o

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Neuroscience of Change: 6 Core Principles

neuroscience change 2Business Transformation initiatives are typically undertaken to solve a pressing issue, bring about improved performance, or to serve customers better.  A critical element of the success of such initiatives entails transforming the existing behaviors of the employees across the organization.  However, this isn’t a straightforward task.

Attitudes and practices get reinforced in people by following established routines day in and day out.  Such practices become a part of an Organizational Culture o

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7 Principles of Culture Change

org culture 1Employee behaviors are critical for the success of Business Transformation endeavors.  However, transforming the ingrained behaviors and mindsets of the workforce isn’t straightforward, and when tackled cause the enterprise’s emotional state to go down.

Leaders need to identify the components of Culture that are in line with their Corporate Strategy.  They have to ascertain and harness the positive elements of culture that can drive the desired Transformation and suppress those that obstruct it.

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OrgD2Research by PwC indicates that leading companies are in a near perpetual state of Reorganization.  This upsurge in Organizational Design initiatives is owing to the accelerating pace of strategic change caused by disruption of industries, changing competitor landscape, customer behaviors, and distribution channels.

Companies opt to commence efforts to restructure their organization in the hopes of enhancing efficiency, perpetuating growth, and surviving in future.  Some shift their Business Model

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9564571461?profile=RESIZE_400xDigital Transformation in Manufacturing or “Digital Manufacturing” for short is not an optional decision for companies anymore.  Manufacturing concerns that want to survive have to jump on the Digital Transformation bandwagon hastily.  Digital Manufacturing has become a prerequisite for a profitable existence even for mere survival of a manufacturing concern.

Business Transformation of any kind is difficult—more so when it is a Digital Transformation in Manufacturing.  In fact, Change Management 

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3 Conditions for Sustainable Change

9534054496?profile=RESIZE_400xWith most Transformation initiatives people gradually revert back to their old habits of doing things.  Sustainable Change Management necessitates 4 key processes:

  • Chartering—defining the scope, rationale, and team for the change initiative.
  • Learning—testing and refining ideas before a full-blown execution of the initiative.
  • Mobilizing—using symbols and metaphors to engage people and gain their buy-in for the change program.
  • Realigning—redefining the roles and responsibilities and managing performan
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4 Processes of Sustainable Change

change2Initiatives aimed at improving performance are often launched with great uproar, costing an organization significant investments.  Such initiatives necessitate extensive changes in the Organizational Culture and the way the enterprise systems and processes function.

However, most initiatives fall short of realizing success.  Decades of scholarly research on Change Management reveals that the issues that contribute the most to the failure of strategic initiatives are:

  • Incompetence in sustaining pro
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Tuckman's 5 Stages of Group Development

8756961262?profile=RESIZE_400xStudies on Team Motivation and Building Effective Teams stem from the research carried out in Psychology and Sociology.  Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), the Founder of Modern Psychology, is credited with conducting the 1st research on the subject.

The Social Psychologist Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) is credited with introducing the term “Group Dynamics.” The term defined the constructive and destructive forces within Groups of people.  Lewin pioneered the Group Dynamics Research Center at the Massachusetts

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11 Pillars: Quality 4.0 Framework

8563874691?profile=RESIZE_400xThe introduction of emerging, digital technologies has ushered in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.  To keep the competitive advantage in this era of Digital Transformation, leveraging contemporary technology is an absolute necessity.  Using cutting-edge technology means not just augmenting, but in fact, revamping the whole Quality outlook.

Quality 4.0 is the complimentary Quality approach to the Industry 4.0 era.  Quality 4.0 is about transforming and improving Organizational Culture, collaborat

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8219694665?profile=originalThe single most pressing challenge for an organization in this knowledge economy is attracting and retaining talented people.  This can be a make or break challenge for the organization and warrants careful consideration during Strategic Planning.

Starting on the right foot is absolutely essential to overcoming this challenge.  Organizations, particularly HR, need to have an  Organizational Culture that boasts of an effective Employee Onboarding process.  In order to accomplish this, present-day

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