{"id":777,"date":"2021-11-21T14:48:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T09:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/?p=777"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:24:26","slug":"information-technology-cultures-across-company-categories-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/information-technology-cultures-across-company-categories-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Technology culture across company categories &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Products:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>High on collaboration<\/li><li>Cross department deliverables<\/li><li>Focus on specific areas like products, goals and such<\/li><li>They typically build their own strategy<\/li><li>Various sub-cultures like entrepreneurial, open source, hybrid and proprietary may exist within this<\/li><li>Controlled offerings for customers<\/li><li>Innovation &amp; creativity is valued highly<\/li><li>R&amp;D is important here<\/li><li>Flexibility in terms of what employees can do beyond the organization<\/li><li>Flat or semi-structured hierarchies mostly<\/li><li>Inventing a new category, offering, product, culture is possible here<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Services:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>No set boundaries on technologies, products &amp; frameworks at times<\/li><li>Customer, partner &amp; product ecosystems more or less drive the strategy &amp; evolution<\/li><li>Standardization of delivery &amp; facilities for employees<\/li><li>Silos &amp; compartments within company by design and reason<\/li><li>Hierarchical &amp; matrix way of reporting and work with management<\/li><li>Typically fixed set of roles &amp; responsibilities for employees<\/li><li>Process plays an important role here<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Startups &amp; mid-sized companies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>No set hierarchy for interactions in the company &#8211; flat or semi-structured hierarchy<\/li><li>Focus on cutting edge domains and technologies at times<\/li><li>Evolves &amp; builds strategy with the market &amp; customers &#8211; Flexible in this aspect<\/li><li>Multi-tasking roles &amp; responsibilities with potentially high growth and learning or relatively quick failure<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Technology work in Non Technology product companies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Focus on implementations of full projects &amp; vendor, partner, product offerings mapped to business outcomes<\/li><li>Co-ordination with stakeholders within and outside the organization plays an important role here<\/li><li>Maintenance &amp; support, evaluation of products &amp; technologies, return on investment takes up a large amount of time<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>#culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email me: Neil@HarwaniSystems.in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Products: High on collaboration Cross department deliverables Focus on specific areas like products, goals and such They typically build their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Culture.jpg?fit=1920%2C1271&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7do02-cx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1023,"url":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/business-process-reengineering-with-a-fictional-information-technology-company\/","url_meta":{"origin":777,"position":0},"title":"Business Process Reengineering with a fictional Information Technology company","author":"Neil Harwani","date":"January 29, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a fictional case study for a business process reengineering class exercise in MBA \/ PGDM \/ PGPM classroom. 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