Organization and Culture diagnoses
By organization and culture diagnoses the fundamental cultural patterns and structures can be analyzed and understood, which an organization should know, if it gets involved in a path of development.
With the sociological method of sequence-analysis these cultural and communicative samples can be set free with respect to their progressive but also defensive qualities.
Culture diagnoses have maintained themselves as the first step of a development process, because upon reflection of the analytical results, the responsible persons are put into place to cast an early glance into the anticipatable chances, difficulties and conflicts of a change process. The decision for such a path thus gains a depth and decisiveness.
Cultural Due Diligence
»Es menschelte halt, nicht bei der Durchführung, aber bei der Umsetzung. So ist das halt.«
»There were a lot of human aspects not in the process of negotiation but in the realization of this fusion. That´s the way it is.«
(Paul Achtleitner, CFO of Allianz to the failed fusion of Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank)
The success ratio of mergers is below 40%. The main problems for this failing are among others:
- the difficulties of the integration of different business cultures
- and associated communication deficits.
The Cultural Due Diligence extends the Due Diligence around a diagnosis of the cultural and communicative patterns which distinguish organizations. Only if organizations can understand their own cultural peculiarities and compare them with the cultural patterns of those businesses which they want to integrate, do they know which integration measures are necessary for the cultural fit.
The system diagnosis in the context of Cultural Due Diligence creates the basis for a comprehensive and sustainable integration management. With system diagnosis, businesses can recognize, communicate, and work on cultural differences as the main obstacles within processes of integration.
System diagnosis is undertaken with the help of sequence-analysis, a procedure of qualitative social research, with which interview samples are analyzed after the cultural patterns contained within.