{"title":"Strategic and Cultural Risk","authors":"","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-4315-3.ch010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4315-3.ch010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the concepts of harm and risk and translates them to the strategy and culture context. The peer-reviewed and gray literature speak to generic hazards and threats whose consequences might be amplified by cultural and information behaviors and actions. This chapter takes the discussion of hazards and risks one step further by speaking to specific hazards and threats related to organizations' business and information cultures and information strategies. The business literature tells us that the rate of strategic failure is somewhere between 60% and 90%. The authors describe several common risk factors that can be addressed by redefining the strategic planning process. The ISO 31000/31010 risk management process is adapted to account for these factors.","PeriodicalId":375246,"journal":{"name":"Relating Information Culture to Information Policies and Management Strategies","volume":"3 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131606700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing Business Cultures","authors":"","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-4315-3.ch005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4315-3.ch005","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, the authors focus on the essential elements of culture and consider the factors that may contribute to shaping an organization's unique culture. The authors caution that this is a rich chapter – the goal is to help business managers make the transition from understanding culture at a theoretical level to seeing and managing it on an everyday practical level. In this chapter, the authors explain what we need to know about business cultures. They define business cultures in terms of their structural and dynamic aspects. The authors define three structural levels, including macro-level (global, national), meso-level (organization, unit), and micro-level (individual) culture. For each level, a rich set of dynamic factors are identified. This chapter prepares the manager for describing his/her organization's business culture.","PeriodicalId":375246,"journal":{"name":"Relating Information Culture to Information Policies and Management Strategies","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128306827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}