Over on Entrepreneur e-zine, serial company founder Greg Besner recommends the following ten metrics concerning organization's culture :  Communication Innovation Agility Wellness Environment Collaboration Support Performance focus Responsibility Mission and value alignment OK, but why did he pick those ten parameters to measure over all the others? What makes them special ? In the article, Greg briefly explains his ten metrics in terms that make it clear why he thinks they are important. The trouble is, with just a moment's thought, I can easily come up with another ten, complete with my reasons for measuring them ... and I guess you too could come up with your self-justified list of ten culture metrics ... and so could anyone else with enough interest and expertise in this area ... I guess right now you are puzzling over Greg's list, wondering about mine, and thinking about what else might be measured. Furthermore, I bet you are forming opinions about 'culture metrics...

The rough topic area having been determined some weeks earlier,  a  key task for us at the start of each month is to finalize both the scope and the purpose of the next information security awareness module.  The scope is a natural outcome of our research on the topic: despite having covered most topics before, we invariably find interesting new angles and end up writing brand new content.  When we last covered the privacy topic back in 2012, we focused on compliance and espionage. This time around, the materials mention compliance (of course!) but emphasize other aspects such as governance, respect and trust. The purpose of the awareness module is crystallized as a set of 'learning objectives' specifying what we hope our customers' audiences will get out of the materials: Inform employees about privacy concepts and their obligations, emphasizing the personal perspective ( e.g.  picturing themselves both as the  cause  and the  victim  of pr...