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Enterprise Agility

You're reading from  Enterprise Agility

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788990646
Pages 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Sunil Mundra Sunil Mundra
Profile icon Sunil Mundra
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters close

Enterprise Agility
About Packt
Forewords
Endorsements
Contributors
Preface
Other Books You May Enjoy
1. Fast-Paced Change – Threat or Opportunity? 2. From Agile to Agility 3. The Enterprise as a Living System 4. Mindset and Culture 5. Leadership 6. Organization Structure 7. Process 8. People 9. Technology 10. Governance 11. Customer 12. Distributed Teams 13. Technology Partners 14. Framework for Action 15. Facilitating Change Index

What is culture?


Organization culture as a topic has been widely taught and researched by academics and specialist practitioners for decades. Yet, like mindset, there is no universally accepted definition of culture. Some popular definitions are as follow.

Edgar Schien, a former professor at MIT Sloan School of Management says:

"A pattern of shared basic assumptions that a group has learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that has worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems". [vi]

Geert Hofstede, a professor and expert in organizational anthropology and international management at Maastricht University states:

"Organizational culture is defined as the way in which members of an organization relate to each other, their work and the outside world in comparison to other organizations. It can enable or hinder an organization's strategy....

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