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Dr. Nancie Evans

Announcing Our New Website!

We at Culture-Strategy Fit are excited to announce our new and improved website at culturestrategyfit.com. After months of hard work, designing and redesigning, we have successfully created an informative, user-friendly site that highlights all our culture-based business products and services.

Why Is A Company’s Culture So Important?

Culture creates the capacity to achieve great things. It’s the organizational DNA that supports strategy, brand, and performance and builds a customer and employee experience for the long term. We’re your culture resource center, ready to support this important work.



Our passion at Culture-Strategy Fit is to share culture surveys, tools and activities for understanding and shaping culture. These tools have been developed over 20 years in working with market-leading global and national organizations.

HOW CAN CULTURE-STRATEGY FIT HELP?

We offer a wide variety of cultural products and services to help companies improve and create high-performance cultures. Including:

Culture Tools

The CULTURESTRATEGYFIT® Culture Tools are proven and effective workshop designs, activities and resources. Developed by culture experts, they have been used successfully in a wide range of organizations, industries, and geographies. They are a valuable addition to every HR/OD professional’s toolkit.

Chocolate Factory Culture Simulation

The CULTURESTRATEGYFIT® Chocolate Factory Culture Simulation is a meaningful hands-on experience that will be vividly remembered for years into the future. Imagine an intense, fast-paced activity where the behaviors of leaders and their impact on significant organizational outcomes are revealed in real-time. Imagine that at the end of 3 hours, leaders, individually and collectively, experience profound insights into the ways they influence culture, as well as how to intentionally shape and change culture.

M&A Tools

The CULTURESTRATEGYFIT® M&A Tools help Leaders, HR/OD professionals and Integration Teams develop culturally appropriate integration plans to optimize the ROI of acquisitions. The M&A Culture Tools identify cultural tensions that must be addressed for integration to be efficient and effective. They also reveal insights that can be used to craft change and communication plans that help transition efforts go as smoothly as possible leading to higher rates of retention.

M&A Culture Integration Workshop

The CULTURESTRATEGYFIT® M&A Culture Integration Workshop provides a methodology for holding meaningful conversations about culture in merging organizations and groups. It uses the M&A Culture Scan to focus discussions on high potential synergies and tensions resulting in targeted actions that can be embedded in integration and change plans. Your purchase includes a PowerPoint presentation, 150-page detailed Leader’s Guide and Interview Guide.

Culture Surveys

The CULTURESTRATEGYFIT® suite of Culture Surveys are research-based, globally appropriate and ready to help you better understand your culture, set priorities for action and measure progress. They are unique in that each survey is designed for a specific purpose and context. They are special in that they tell a story rather than simply provide data. They reveal the insights leaders need to intentionally shape and change their company’s culture. Innovation Survey

Innovation Survey

The CULTURESTRATEGYFIT® Innovation Culture Pulse provides insights as to how your culture is supporting and/or getting in the way of achieving your innovation goals. It is also a powerful tool for determining why some divisions or groups are more innovative than others.

This 80-item survey takes a deep dive into the six dimensions of culture most critical to successful innovation including a set of innovation specific practices and behaviors. Clear, comprehensive reports provide the data you need to make informed choices.

Visit CULTURESTRATEGYFIT® today and enter code CSFLAUNCH for 20% off all of our culture products and services until Labor Day!

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Rowing team displaying a culture of unified teamwork and sense of unified direction.
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Several corporate executives connecting 6 puzzle pieces 0 depicting the need for Culture in M&A
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CEO leader in front of his employees with his arms raised in the air smiling.
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If you are a manager at any level in an organization, you need to care about culture. Specifically, you need to understand how your words and actions are affecting the values, beliefs and assumptions of the people within your sphere of influence, and particularly those who report to you. This goes well beyond behaving in […] The post The Culture-Performance Dilemma appeared first on Culture Strategy Fit.
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left and right hand each holding a puzzle piece that will soon be connected.
By Dr. Nancie Evans 25 Jul, 2019
Every acquisition an organization makes, no matter how large or small, has a culture that defines the way things are done around here. This is deeply embedded in its DNA and affects all aspects of organizational life. It is anchored in a set of unconscious and taken-for-granted beliefs and assumptions about the expected and best […] The post Conducting Culture Due Diligence appeared first on Culture Strategy Fit.
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Culture is created by shared experience, but it is the leader who initiates this process by acting out his or her beliefs, values, and assumptions in the behaviors he or she demonstrates and the practices he or she uses. So far, we have focused on senior leaders due to the power they have to drive […] The post Lesson 4: Who Are Your Leaders? appeared first on Culture Strategy Fit.
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