Changing mindset and culture
As seen in the preceding model, the ecosystem of mindset and culture is highly complex. In terms of changing mindset and culture, the key takeaway is that it is extremely difficult to establish a direct cause-and-effect relationship between the variables that influence them and also to what extent they influence them. Given how deeply culture is entrenched in every element of an enterprise, changing a company's culture is difficult and also takes a lot of time. Among all the changes which a business needs to make to enhance agility, culture change, by far, is the most difficult one. According to the 11th State of Agile survey [xi] "company philosophy or culture at odds with core Agile values" is the biggest challenge faced by companies attempting to adopt and scale Agile.
Given this, the best that companies can do is to introduce interventions to the variables that are likely to cause an impact on mindset and culture. Like any complex system, the system of mindset...
