[stagbeetle]

Is complete acculturation practically possible?

It seems that all cultures have foundations that never go away.

How about partial acculturation? Has it successfully been done before? Has a company ever managed to completely change their inner workings without becoming something unrecognizable?

[kchoudhu]

I'm not asking for Borg-style assimilation: I'm asking for basic management standards followed by all managers.

Upper management's pervasive refusal to pay anything more than token lip service to this standardization makes 99% of technology organizations a political hell to work in.