Title :
Mining organizational culture: critical knowledge areas and breakthrough concepts
Author :
Ibarra, Robert ; Thompsen, Joyce
Author_Institution :
Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI, USA
Abstract :
Exponential growth in technology and emerging organizational prototypes signal the advent of cultural evolution. Leadership must now develop radically new adaptive strategies for survival. Our ancestors survived by successfully using undeveloped critical knowledge areas (CKAs) generating a technology-based cultural shift 10000 years ago. Today, leadership must mine organizational cultures for new CKA and breakthrough concepts. The author presents anthropological insights about culture, CKA and qualitative methodologies for assessing complex organizational systems
Keywords :
management; management of change; adaptive leadership strategies; breakthrough concepts; complex organizational systems assessment; critical knowledge areas; cultural evolution; exponential technology growth; organizational culture mining; organizational prototypes; qualitative methodologies; Animals; Assembly; Chaos; Cultural differences; Food technology; Humans; Information technology; Internet; Prototypes; Virtual groups;
Conference_Titel :
Innovation in Technology Management - The Key to Global Leadership. PICMET '97: Portland International Conference on Management and Technology
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3574-0
DOI :
10.1109/PICMET.1997.653404
