Operationalizing Purpose

Moving to an era of Swift Deliberate change

We are conducting research into organizational behavior as foundational input to define the Culture and Organizational Resolve (COR) methodology and tools currently under development. The primary objective of COR is to operationalize the pursuit of purpose. We’re exploring if/how to detect patterns of organizational behavior (including those captured in large public datasets) in an attempt to build an easily and widely available case repository for informing important decisions across the operations of any organization including governance, HR/people policies, external alignment and product/service development. We want to help bring closure to the era of moving fast and breaking things into a mode of Swift Deliberate Change.

The COR methodology is for helping management intentionally guide the formation of a principles-based organizational culture. COR provides a set of data-driven tools to support decision-making and illustrate best practices for all types of organizations. It can be adopted by complete entities or at the project team level that either develop and/or adopt new technologies. The project includes the development of a Data Driven Decision Support System (D3SS) as the substrate for the COR suite of tools.

Learning from history to create a more beneficial future

The COR Repository underlying the D3SS will illustrate among other factors how an organization’s commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion as a core principle correlates to reducing incidences of bias in algorithms, data and other aspects of product development. The effort encompasses identifying/vetting appropriate data sources for ingesting (e.g., NLP and ML) primarily unstructured data on which to perform organizational behavior pattern matching. Output will be an initial set of tools in support of the scope of COR's MVP and the development of multi-disciplinary instructional materials (e.g., Engineering, Business, Marketing, Finance, etc.) to be adopted in entrepreneurship classes and accelerator programs in both academia and the private sector.

The leads on this project include Professors Scott Taitel and Andy Moss of NYU Wagner.