Challenge

Globally, mergers and acquisitions worth a total of nearly $5 trillion take place every year, driven by the need to:

• acquire technology or talent
• streamline when sectors converge
• respond to shifts in customer behavior
• secure supply chain
• gain access to new markets

The number of deals is growing rapidly, while they become more complex involving multiple markets and industries. Studies show that 85% of mergers and acquisitions globally fail to create value. In more than 30% of these, cultural misalignment is one of the key reasons cited. Yet ‘cultural due diligence’ is virtually unknown.

Solution

Prior to a merger or acquisition, MnAgenome allows the buyer to perform data-driven cultural due diligence, determining how well the target company’s culture is aligned to the goals of the combined organization.

Financial impact assessment - Value Adjustment Factor (VAF):

The Value Adjustment Factor (VAF) measures the impact of cultural alignment or misalignment on the financial value of a transaction. It helps clients to shape deal strategies, adjusting asset valuation or planning pre-merger interventions.

Challenge

Following a merger or acquisition, many companies find that the newly-created entity does not meet planned business objectives, failing to realize the anticipated value created by the merger.

Solution

InGenome helps clients to assess the progress of integration and uncover cultural factors affecting post-transaction performance. Detailed cultural insights help companies to intervene and adjust integration strategies to build an organization that will drive business results, through:

• employee, team and leadership engagement across the organization
• effective communications that are continual, transparent and aware of internal and external sentiments
• leadership that is closely involved and able and incentivized to lead change
• values that support the business mandate of the new entity

Financial impact assessment - Performance Variance Factor (PVF):

The Performance Variance Factor (PVF) measures the impact of unforeseen cultural misalignment on post- transaction results and can be used to plan smart interventions to avoid erosion of value.

Challenge

Companies are increasingly undertaking cultural transformation initiatives to create an environment for success and accelerate progress towards business targets, driven by the need to:

• adapt to a changing market and technology landscape
• deliver superior customer service
• improve employee retention and wellness
• engage leadership to drive productivity and innovation
• enhance brand value and stakeholder confidence

Solution

CultureGenome allows business leaders to measure the difference between current and optimal culture, and plan effective interventions for cultural transformation.

Financial impact assessment - Culture Risk Indicator (CRI):

Globally, mergers and acquisitions worth a total of nearly $5 trillion take place every year, driven by the need to:

• acquire technology or talent
• streamline when sectors converge
• respond to shifts in customer behavior
• secure supply chain
• gain access to new markets

The number of deals is growing rapidly, while they become more complex involving multiple markets and industries. Studies show that 85% of mergers and acquisitions globally fail to create value. In more than 30% of these, cultural misalignment is one of the key reasons cited. Yet ‘cultural due diligence’ is virtually unknown.

Managing employee engagement real-time to drive performance

Challenge

In order to drive people performance for business success, organizations need to engage employees and track progress against key engagement indicators. Typically this tracking is done through a periodic, manual check, which is burdensome and not real-time, so there’s a lag between measurement and what’s actually happening in the organization.

Solution

Beats is a system for engaging employees in real time and analyzing the feedback in a more scientific way than previously possible. It allows leaders to keep up to date with employee attitudes and opinions and track progress on key engagement indicators, enabling more timely and effective people management.

How it works

Real-time input and customized analysis.

Our AI chatbot, Kaiwa, engages employees through smart conversations which can be conducted at any time, and over the course of each employee’s career.

Employee feedback from Kaiwa is presented in a weekly dashboard for leaders that measures how in sync employees are with the objectives of the organization, their teams, their leadership and their jobs.

The dashboard can be tailored to specific business needs. Beats can look at the data from Kaiwa in more than 2000 ways, allowing leaders to create their own dashboards based on which employee groups and priorities are most critical for growth.

The challenge

Employee learning is a vital factor in driving business success. In today’s environment of rapid change, intensifying competition and the virtual workplace, learning has never been more important, driven by the need to:

• Enhance adaptability, innovation and productivity.
• Improve retention and engage through employee ‘experience’.
• Create a purpose-led, results-driven organisation.

But the effectiveness of traditional training courses can be hampered by:

• a disconnect between training and performance improvements .
• lack of tools to measure and monitor learning outcomes.
• time lag between identification of need, training implementation, and performance results.

Our AI-powered solution: ELSA

At Culturelytics, we are pioneers in using AI to help companies build cultures for business success. To help address the learning challenge, we have created ELSA, our AI-powered ‘smart’ employee learning platform.

ELSA uses AI-based tools to complete the employee learning cycle, transforming training into real behaviour change and improved performance.

How it works

For employees After completing a training course (induction, company-assigned course, self-selected courses), employees are given access to the ELSA platform, which includes:

• Learning resources: Interactive consoles with targeted, intelligently designed resources and gamified lessons, to create a continuous learning experience. In addition to client-sourced materials, includes a suite of curated online resources targeting 142 behavioural attributes, at all levels (senior management, mid-level or junior).
• Development tools: Interactive consoles enabling self-development and self-assessment. Employees can create an Individual Development Plan, proactively manage their own implementation, and benchmark progress against peers in the company.

For leaders: Intelligent dashboards with real-time learning analytics allow leaders to:

• Shape learning content based on key values, business mandate and required behavioural change.
• Track learning patterns in the organisation and benchmark to industry.
• Make targeted, cost-effective investments in strategic skills development.
• Target recruitment based on a clear, data-based picture of skills gaps.

Contact

This is just one of the ways that Culturelytics is using the power of AI to help business leaders build resilient, adaptable cultures that can continually drive results. If you would like to find out more about how we can help you, please get in touch:

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