{"id":823,"date":"2017-04-21T11:36:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T10:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=823"},"modified":"2021-09-01T12:25:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T11:25:46","slug":"how-to-shape-a-company-culture-with-sop","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/en\/news-insights\/articles\/how-to-shape-a-company-culture-with-sop\/","title":{"rendered":"How to shape a company culture with S&#038;OP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"intro\">PREVIEW\u00a0<em>In a 2010\u00a0<\/em>Foresight\u00a0<em>article, S&amp;OP Editor John Mello argued that successful execution of S&amp;OP is inevitably linked to corporate culture. A culture based on silo mentality and lack of trust not only undermines S&amp;OP effectiveness but also reduces employee engagement and well-being. In this article, Niels van Hove (Principal Consultant at Crimson &amp; Co) argues that while effective S&amp;OP can thrive in the right company culture, the process itself can influence and shape that culture. He calls for S&amp;OP leaders to articulate goals that include clear expectations on behaviours. Doing so will not only improve effectiveness but also enable S&amp;OP to play an active role in improving employee attitudes and satisfaction.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>S&amp;OP implementations require significant change, not the least being behavioural change. And change is hard. In his ground breaking 1996 study\u00a0<em>Leading<\/em>\u00a0<em>Change<\/em>, John Kotter reports that change transformation is successful in only 30 percent of companies. A McKinsey study among 3,199 CEOs in 2008 confirmed that indeed only one in three transformations succeeds (Aiken &amp; Keller, 2009). And of the failures, 70 percent are due to culture-related issues: employee resistance to change and unsupportive management behaviours (Aiken &amp; Keller, 2011).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-824 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Planning-meeting.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"149\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite these facts, only 26 percent of practitioners think that behaviours are adequately addressed in S&amp;OP implementations (Van Hove, 2015). It is not unlikely that a lack of attention to behaviours is a major reason why S&amp;OP maturity stalls, regardless of the maturity model used. Sixty-seven percent of companies could not get further than stage 2 out of their four-stage S&amp;OP maturity model. (Barrett &amp; Uskert, 2010), with most stuck in stages 1 and 2 (Kinaxis, 2011). On top of this, 36% of companies\u2019 S&amp;OP efforts are stalled or moving slowly (Cecere &amp; Chase, 2012).<\/p>\n<p>But rather than seeing behaviours and company culture as obstacles to implementing and developing S&amp;OP, we should view S&amp;OP as an opportunity to shape and improve company culture. Executives need to align themselves around what effective mind-set and behaviours to integrate into their company culture. If they should aspire to achieve high levels of S&amp;OP maturity, S&amp;OP can play a critical role in establishing this culture. First, executives need an understanding of what these effective mind-sets and behaviours are\u2014and need to demonstrate these behaviours themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Here they include \u201cthe organisational mind-set and practices that facilitate and advance formal planning.\u201d In terms of individual and organisational mind-set, psychology explains how some mind-sets are more effective than others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crimsonandco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-shape-a-company-culture-with-SOP-2.pdf\">Read the full article here \u2013 Foresight magazine<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3091,"template":"","categories":[],"region":[158,159,160,161,162,240],"class_list":["post-823","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to shape a company culture with S&amp;OP - Argon &amp; Co<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/en\/news-insights\/articles\/how-to-shape-a-company-culture-with-sop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to shape a company culture with S&amp;OP - Argon &amp; Co\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PREVIEW\u00a0In a 2010\u00a0Foresight\u00a0article, S&amp;OP Editor John Mello argued that successful execution of S&amp;OP is inevitably linked to corporate culture. 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