| 3. Where Do We Start?
Your organization may be in an advanced state of Quality Management or at the initial stage of setting strategy. You may be implementing an Integrated Manufacturing System or Integrated Product Developmnet. Regardless of this state of development, the response to organizational change is going to be the same -- apprehension and resistance. Only the degree of resistance will vary. Therefore the place to start is to get sanction for change from the top down and then build commitment from the bottom up.
Sanctioning change will only result from senior management being able to gain an understanding of the significantly improved results that are achieved as a result of aligning the culture with other improvement efforts. Our approach often starts with measurement of the existing culture, leading to formal design of cultural transformation.
A call to an AMGI professional will help you to think through how this can be sponsored in the most effective way within your own organization. Whether early or late, this often neglected area of strategy is the only way to successfully address the organizational barriers to building a high performance work environment.
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