Subject category:
Strategy and General Management
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 23 January 1992
Revision date: 30-Aug-2011
Length: 19 pages
Data source: Field research
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Abstract
The main issue has to do with the lack of fit or incompatibility between the early environmental requirements for strategy and the cultural constraints on the organization. Describes the internal resistance to the proposed changes and top management's efforts to resolve the contradictory requirements of strategy and culture. A second major issue concerns the challenge facing a general manager who has been given responsibility for operationalizing the forced solution. Provides a brief background on Johnson & Johnson culture and the corporate systems and structures. A consolidated version of two earlier cases.
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Abstract
The main issue has to do with the lack of fit or incompatibility between the early environmental requirements for strategy and the cultural constraints on the organization. Describes the internal resistance to the proposed changes and top management's efforts to resolve the contradictory requirements of strategy and culture. A second major issue concerns the challenge facing a general manager who has been given responsibility for operationalizing the forced solution. Provides a brief background on Johnson & Johnson culture and the corporate systems and structures. A consolidated version of two earlier cases.

