Rosia Bay Ltd

These days I hear a lot of talk about the role of culture in change management—whether it’s possible to “lead” organisational change using culture as a vehicle. In my experience culture influences change, but culture change is not the same as change management.  Most managers and executives are well aware of how important culture is to their companies’ success. But it’s not always factored into change management processes. The least successful change initiatives tend not to consider culture. And more successful initiatives leveraged cultural strengths to support them.  It makes sense.  If the culture of an organisation is not closely aligned with the company’s strategic goals, a major change is going to be harder to pull off.      I don’t believe culture change will ever replace formal change management processes.  But culture can enable and support change, if it’s leveraged right. Maybe your company has strong informal employee networks or a...