Most leaders recognize how critical a high-performance culture is to their organization’s success. Most also struggle to achieve it.
Developing the right culture is essential to achieving sustainable competitive advantage: Companies with a purpose-driven organizational culture outperform their peers. They attract and retain a diverse workforce with the highest-caliber skills. They empower employees to collaborate and innovate in agile ways—and inspire them to go the extra mile. They align workers and resources to advance strategic goals.
Our approach, based on cutting-edge behavioral science, helps leaders understand how they can personally activate a new culture—and permanently embed it within the organization using our proven change management strategies and tools.
Organizational culture is how your people behave within your company’s context:
To achieve a high-performance culture, BCG’s organizational culture consulting experts ensure that a company’s purpose, strategy, and culture are closely interconnected.
With these forces aligned, a company gains the vision it needs to remake itself through cultural change. Driving diversity and inclusion is a critical component of this journey to change organizational culture.
Because it can be both unconscious and pervasive, bias is difficult to tackle. Nan DasGupta, discusses the difficulties in breaking down bias at work.
Listen NowOur Articulate, Activate, Embed framework allows clients to articulate what a leading organizational culture looks like, activate new behaviors to make it a reality, and embed and reinforce target behaviors to make sure it sticks.
Amethyst, BCG’s learning and behavior change app, supports training and coaching for leaders and managers through digital nudges, text messages, emails, apps, and gamification.
BCG’s Organization Design Enablement Center ensures that large-scale reorganizations lead to higher-performing organizations.
How Changing Culture Put an Insurer on a Growth Trajectory
BCG helped a global insurance company design a new functional operating model and identify a portfolio of initiatives. By embracing change management principles and focusing on culture, the company lowered management costs by 20% and reduced overall costs by approximately $500 million.
Jim Hemerling explains four steps to achieve organizational culture change and break down the myths.
Cultural transformation is difficult—but not impossible. RBC CEO Dave McKay explains how a shock to the system can deliver change.
BCG’s Matt Krentz explains why leaders who set the budgets for and lead the efforts in diversity and inclusion must be engaged and educated to help expand the impact of these programs.
Companies can’t capture the real value of a diverse workforce until they create an organizational culture that welcomes everyone—truly everyone—to participate.
Supporting employees’ mental and physical health is critical. So is creating an environment where people can be their authentic selves.
Changing how people work can be the biggest challenge.
