Culture Risk Management
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” — Peter Drucker
Most organizations don’t know the extent their corporate culture:
- generates unacceptably high risks of unethical or illegal conduct
- hinders or supports performance or the implementation of their strategies.
- wastes resources through ineffective integration of teams, divisions, or acquired companies, generating frustration that can lead to undesired behavior.
Culture Matters
- According to a leading national survey “ethics risk is most effectively reduced by an enterprise-wide cultural approach to ethics.”
- For boards to meet heightened oversight expectations, directors need access to diagnostic tools that can determine the ethical risks inherent in the culture and whether management has the ability to achieve stated strategic objectives.
- In mergers and acquisitions there is a dramatic correlation between the effectiveness with which culture issues are managed and the combined company's long-term business results - based on revenues, profitability, and stock price.
Is Your Culture Creating Too Much Risk?
Skout’s approaches and tools provide an objective, quantitative, and therefore actionable view of an organization’s culture. These culture metrics make possible better decision-making and provide early warning of areas requiring intervention to prevent friction and frustration that can lead to ethics gaps and performance issues.
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News & Events
On November 5, 2009 Skout Group is hosting a workshop on Building High Performance Values-Driven Organizations with Richard Barrett, world-reknown thought leader on values-based organizations and creator of the Cultural Transformation Tools.
Skout Group President David Gebler will be co-teaching a course on business ethics at Suffolk University Graduate Program in Public Policy and Ethics in Spring 2010. David is on the International Advisory Board of the Graduate Program in Ethics and Public Policy at Suffolk University.
Skout Group President David Gebler was a keynote speaker at the 3rd International Congress of Management Based in Values in Caracas, Venezuela, June 16, 2009. David discussed Skout Group’s unique corporate diagnostic tool, Management Drives.
Skout Group President David led a session on Steps to Building Trust with General Dynamics ATP Ethics Officer Suzanne Jones at the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association Sponsoring Partners Forum in Colorado Springs in May 2009.
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