Template · Org, people & execution
Competing Values Framework template
For profiling an organisation's culture on two tensions, inward or outward, flexible or controlled, so it can be measured and compared. Leave it alone when you want to know why the culture is as it is; Schein digs for that. Instead Schein's Three Levels of Culture, which digs for why the culture is the way it is.
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Score or describe your organisation against each quadrant, current culture first and preferred culture second, then read the gaps. Your entries persist for this browser session and can be copied out as Markdown or printed.
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A blank template is the easy part. The entry behind it covers how to run Competing Values Framework properly, a worked example, the pitfalls real teams hit, and the situations where it is the wrong tool and something else would serve better.