Few business school graduates at the turn of the millennium will have completed their studies without the oft-repeated phrase “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” ringing in their ears. Fewer still will have emerged unscathed from a well intentioned but ultimately flawed corporate ‘Culture Change Programme’.

However – as Clarendon Executive’s Mark Latuske explains – after a period of dormancy, the ‘C’ word is firmly back on the agenda for businesses seeking ways to differentiate themselves and outperform competitors in an increasingly complex operating market.

Louis Gerstner Jr. who famously overhauled IBM in the 1990s and early 2000s is synonymous with the quote; “I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn’t just one aspect of the game, it is the game.”  The centrality of culture in organisational success is not a new idea but there...