Mining organizational culture: critical knowledge areas and breakthrough concepts

Author

Ibarra, Robert ; Thompsen, Joyce

Author_Institution

Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

27-31 Jul 1997

Firstpage

349

Lastpage

352

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PICMET.1997.653404

Filename

653404