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Organization Culture

What Business Leaders Say

“The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.” Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. former CEO, IBM

What We Provide

MDI provides a unique set of internet based assessment tools that accurately measure an organization's culture by identifying strengths that can be capitalized and propagated and possible blind spots that are adversely impacting performance and effectiveness. Key areas MDI examines in its cultural assessments include:

Our activities include:

Pinpointing the root causes behind organizational strengths and blind spots.

Creating programs and guiding cultural change, the behavior of the organization, and its level of performance.

Working with leaders to leverage organizational strengths and counteract causes of poor performance.

Establishing ongoing measurements for maintaining a high performing organization.

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Performance

“Strategy matters, no doubt. But without a winning culture to drive it forward your strategy takes you nowhere.”
Harvard Business Review, January, 2008

Invisible Cause

"New Leaders who come into an organization prepared to 'shake things up' and institute sweeping changes, often experience resistance to change and failure. Difficulties with organizational transformation arise from failures to analyze an organization's existing culture."
Edgar Schein, Professor of Management, MIT

Organization Culture

"If a strategy or directive doesn't mesh with the beliefs about 'how things get done around here,' then the culture will simply reject it."
John McGuire, Center for Creative Leadership

"I'm surprised by the number of companies that ignore culture completely. That's simply bad business. Companies like Southwest, SAS, GE, Intel and others have proven that a winning culture can be a bottom line business advantage."
Angelo Kinicki, Professor of Management, Arizona State University

The values operating within the organization that are driving beliefs and shaping behavior,

If appropriate, we assist in creating road maps that can help affect and measure positive change. We guide you in your culture change program, helping you avoid stumbling blocks and working with your staff to unleash their potential.

IT Organization Culture

Culture drives performance. It is the pivotal and invisible cause behind effective performance or the realization of something less. Culture is the shared and learned systems of values, beliefs and attitudes that shape and influence the perception and behavior of people. Understanding Culture provides insight into organizational behavior and its positive or negative impacts.

Culture is always changing. As people change, so does organizational culture. New hires, promotions, organizational and environmental changes and new or modified work procedures all impact culture. To maintain effectiveness, organizations need to periodically monitor organization culture to ensure that desired cultural characteristics are being maintained. MDI internet based assessment tools are well suited to help clients periodically monitor organizational culture and ensure its continued positive impact on performance and effectiveness.

Products & Services

The vehicles actively transmitting knowledge and influencing behavior and organizational identity,

The dominant work styles reinforcing and shaping behavior, and

The directional impact culture is having on the organization -- whether the organization is moving towards growth or decline.