It’s Not What You Know, It’s How You Think
Author: Zat Rana Understanding our pattern-seeking mind is the first step toward real wisdom Late historians Will and Ariel Durant spent four decades of their lives studying, compiling, and writing the history of Western civilization. The product of their efforts, The Complete Story of Civilization, went on to span several million words across more than 8,800 [...]
Kultur for digital transformasjon
Tone S. Ringstad, Grunnlegger og daglig leder Culturengine AS I Finansavisen 15.7. fremstår kultur som vesentlig for å lykkes med digitale trensformasjon. World Economic Forum peker på økende press mot alle virksomheter i næringslivet for å håndtere den fjerde industrielle revolusjon der digital transformasjon er helt avgjørende. Der er hastighet, kompleksitet, diversitet og disrupsjon store [...]
Do you find culture complicated?
Author: Tone S. Ringstad (Founder and CEO at Culturengine) Culture is not complicated, but it is complex. So in all complex matter, relevant data makes it easier to understand. A culture is defined as the sum of the values priorities in the team or organisation. That means that if we can identify the values [...]
Default or designing culture?
Author: Tone S. Ringstad (Founder and CEO at Culturengine) Culture may be your biggest help or your worst nightmare. For business leaders, it introduces a great risk, as strategies and project implementation is unpredictable in time and cost. For each and every persons involved, there is a hurtful and frustrating process if the direction [...]
Future Values
Author: Tone S. Ringstad (Founder and CEO at Culturengine) Modern business is slowly responding the UN goals and every country and even company seem to have at least one goal linked to the UN scorecards. The challenges are nevertheless to put it all to act in a sustainable way, in creating an accountable culture for [...]
Culture Hacking
Author: Tone S. Ringstad (Founder and CEO at Culturengine) Culture Hacking is increasingly drawing attention. In the Gartner’s 2018 CIO Survey, 46% of respondents named culture as the biggest barrier to scaling digital transformation. In the same event, Culture Hacking was introduced as a way to nudge an organization to make small changes to cause big scale change. [...]
Six steps for developing virtual team cultures
Author: Tone S. Ringstad (Founder and CEO at Culturengine) In the fourth industrial revolution, online collaboration is increasingly required. What are the culture requirements to virtual teams that work online and never meet face to face? MIT has completed a study with two groups. They assigned each of 68 teams to complete an emotional [...]
Do you have customer service culture code? (Podcast)
Listen to the podcast Culturengine’s digital analytical tool for business culture has developed a series of culture codes for different businesses. In partnership with STI (Scandinavian Technology Institute), we have completed a study on Norwegian Customer Service teams with the objective to identify their culture. Through our customized culture survey, we gathered data from [...]
The Digital Culture
Author: Tone S. Ringtstad (Founder and CEO at Culturengine) Working shoulder to shoulder with a robot will be a challenge, we get that. Leading it, in reality, will be even a bigger challenge. The good news is that it will be a while for most of us. You may, however, as a leader, already [...]