Does your culture fit your strategy?
A big culture–strategy disconnect can be catastrophic. Only a formal assessment based on objective data can tell you if your organization is ready to transform.
Featured - 4 items
The Katzenbach Center helps clients close the strategy-through-execution gap by putting their cultures to work. With a network of practitioners advising across multiple industries, geographies, and client situations, we guide clients as they tap the power of their cultures and unlock the wisdom of teams to foster performance.
Our time-tested methodology and focused thought leadership is rooted in the original works of leading organizational strategy advisor and best-selling author, Jon Katzenbach.
Loading...
Rethinking total reward strategies
Pay, incentives, and benefits haven’t significantly changed for decades, but people’s preferences have. Employee compensation needs a rethink if companies are to attract and retain talent.
How utilities can encourage innovation without being a tech giant
Utilities face a tough challenge when it comes to infusing innovation into the way they work.
How to reset costs and reshape your business for growth
Download our Fit for Growth guide to respond and emerge stronger from the COVID-19 crisis.
Talent Trends 2020
How upskilling can lead to competitive advantage in an uncertain world.
Responding to the business impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19)
At Strategy&, we share our experience and provide guidance to our clients depicting post Covid-19 challenges and opportunities.
How to unleash creative thinking
With presence of mind, you can free your brain to create flashes of insight.
10 principles for leadership presence
Build muscle memory to support conviction, commitment, and resilience for yourself and your organization.
Loading...
Key topic areas
Culture is the self-sustaining patterns of behaviors and mindsets that determine how work gets done. Many business leaders understand that culture plays an important role in business performance, but most struggle to align culture with strategy and fully harness this power. We help clients work with and within their existing cultures to drive long-term performance. Our emphasis on a critical few behaviors over mindsets is what differentiates our approach.
Loading...
Cultural Change That Sticks
In the early 2000s Aetna was struggling mightily on all fronts.
10 Principles of Organizational Culture
Companies can tap their natural advantage when they focus on changing a few important behaviors, enlist informal leaders, and harness the power of employees’ emotions.
The Critical Few: Components of a Truly Effective Culture
Forget the monolithic change management programs and focus on the elements of your culture that drive performance.
Culture and the Chief Executive
CEOs are stepping up to a new role, as leaders of their company’s thinking and behavior.
Loading...
What we do
Oil company facing a challenging road ahead
A middle eastern national oil company was facing a significant demographic shift in their workforce and an increasingly competitive external environment. To succeed in this new environment, the client developed an ambitious long-term strategic plan. Leadership soon realized that in order for the plan to succeed, they needed to leverage the strengths of their existing culture and get emotional commitment from the organization. Together, we prioritized 4 critical behaviors and deployed them across a series of pilots. Ultimately, we recorded business performance improvements that were directly attributable to behavior change.
Talk to one of our experts about your organization's culture
Car manufacturer recovered from the brink
A North American car manufacturer on the brink of bankruptcy tackled its deeply embedded culture after formal changes—reshaping strategy and optimizing costs—weren’t moving the needle far enough. To evolve the culture in a sustainable way, the organization relied on leaders to role model new behaviors and leveraged "authentic informal leaders" to spread the behaviors throughout the organization rapidly. Ultimately, the effort resulted in faster decision-making, increased accountability, and improved customer and product focus.
Talk to one of our experts about your organization's culture
Information technology company re-found its mojo
Following a number of leadership changes and declining performance in the market, a tech company CEO began to wonder if culture wasn’t the problem. Her organization had a long history, steeped in pride, but she felt it was adrift. We helped them redefine their ecosystem of values, core principles, leadership attributes, behaviors, and "rallying cry" that made the culture unique and compelling. To help the message spread and behaviors stick, the client engaged ~1,250 "pride builders" across 85 countries globally. Within a year, engagement scores increased by 10%.
Talk to one of our experts about how to engage your informal organization
Pulling together the best diverse team
A banking group in ANZSEA had experienced rapid, inorganic growth resulting in diverse and opposing ways of working, and was looking forward to achieving aggressive 5 year targets. We helped the bank understand its cultural strengths across divisions / locations and use them to accelerate priority strategic imperatives. First, we engaged with leaders to diagnose the existing culture and sub-cultures. We identified a long list of behaviors and refined them into three critical behaviors that the organization spread across a workforce of 40,000+.
Talk to one of our experts about how to get the most out of your teams
Follow us
Contact us
