The Cultural Web The Cultural Web Aligning your team ’s or organization ’s culture with strategy James Manktelow MindTools.com Mind Tools - Essential skills for an excellent career! What is the first thing that pops in your mind when you hear the term corporate culture? A great many people refer to the classic phrase coined by the McKinsey organization‚ that culture is “how we do things around here”. And while that may be true‚ there are so many elements that go into determining what you do and
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THE CULTURAL WEB BEFORE HOWARD STRINGER Organizational culture sometimes influences the organizations strategy if taken for granted. Culture has played a role in Sony’s current financial difficulties. They had power blocks which hindered the flow of communication and corporation between the management‚ designers‚ production and marketing. The Cultural Web‚ developed by Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes in 1992‚ provides one such approach for looking at and changing your organization ’s culture
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The Cultural Web • Strategic Fashion Management • Roam Mas Band • By: Dasha Fortune Roam Mas Band • Strictly "Made in Trinidad” carnival productions. Delivering fashionable costumes with creative designs. ALL thematic presentations will encompass a true Trinidad Carnival experience of mas‚ tasty food‚ and great music. Our productions will include all skill demonstrations: Couture‚ Wire work‚ Cane work‚ and Sculpture Setting a strong example of professionalism and excellence at all times
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It is observed in the recent years that most of the organizations in the market fail when it comes to executing the strategy that they had panned initially. There is a failure percentage of 80% - 90% when it comes to the implementation of the strategy; this has been reported by various sources (Chris Zook‚ 2010). The Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (2012) states that for interior review to stay important‚ it ought to adjust to changing desires and keep up arrangement with the association’s
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The cultural web We have decided to use the cultural web in order to look at the organizational culture as it is now and secondly look at how we want the culture to be in the future. Thirdly we will evaluate and identify the differences between the two; these differences are the changes we need to make in order to achieve the high-performance culture that we want to obtain. The cultural web identifies six interrelated elements that paints the bigger picture of the company of analysis. The six elements
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expansion of Starbucks. Maarten de Graaf‚ s1861263 Tom Breteler‚ s2022117 Group 12 13-10-2010 Introduction to International Business Ms. Wilhelm 1. What are the four dimensions of ‘distance’ in Starbuck’s international expansion? The four dimensions are culture‚ administrative‚ geographic and economic distance. 2. How did Starbucks reduce the ‘distance’ vis à vis host countries? Starbucks used many tactics to reduce its distance from foreign markets. Firstly‚ Starbucks conducted extensive
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STARBUCKS: Selling Coffee in the Land of Tea 1. Many of the same environmental factors that operate in the domestic market also exist internationally‚ including cultural ones. Discuss the key cultural factors Starbucks had to consider as it expanded into China. Chinese culture was a key environmental factor that Starbucks had to consider when opening its first store in Beijing in 1999. ―The Land of Tea‖ wasn’t interested in the product Starbucks was selling: coffee. It wasn’t a part of
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Provide an overview of the Cultural Web for JD Wetherspoons – providing at least one element for each of the 6 sections of the web. From this analysis draw a conclusion about ‘what it is like to work here’ at JD Wetherspoons. Stories & Myths – One of the famous stories which Tim Martin likes to tell is when at a works night out one of the woman employees who was a cleaner at the time stole at truck. That woman is now a regional manager and still working for the company and climbing the career ladder
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Starbucks has become one of the most recognised brand in the world‚ known for selling highest quality coffee products. The company discovered that there was a potential in beverage retailing and today operates 8337 stores worldwide. The founder‚ Howard Schultz started in Seattle with a concept of high quality product in a relaxed atmosphere. But a new market is always a new challenge and carries an amount of risk for a company. This assignment is going to analyse the company ’s international expansion
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4.4 CULTURE Johnson‚ Scholes and Whittington speak about a cultural web which demonstrates the analysis of organizational culture. Behaviors were seen through stories‚ symbols‚ power structure‚ organizational structures‚ control systems and rituals and routines‚ which make up the paradigm of the cultural web. See below. The layman understanding of culture can be simply translated to persons in an organizational setting stating how things are done there‚ how work is performed‚ what may or may
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