We began thinking about organizational culture and its impact on strategy when we worked as journalists.
\We met in 2006 as doctoral students at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and began exploring organizational culture under the guidance of Dr. Michael Diamond, founder of the Center for the Study of Organizational Change at Mizzou’s Truman School of Public Affairs. While there, we worked together with three news organizations to understand how building change initiatives around journalistic values might affect those efforts, before delving into our own cultural studies.
In 2009, we began what became a 10-year study of the Christian Science Monitor and its evolution in the online world. That longitudinal study became the basis of Transforming Newsrooms: Connecting Organizational Culture, Strategy, and Innovation, which details the Monitor’s efforts and our model of change.