THE COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES PETROLIERS

AN OVERVIEW

CPS its an oil service company ,its was established in 1950.

It’s the only oil company in french has approximately 3,500 employees.

AN OVERVIEW

Company other part of business that is divided into two parts:

Industrial activity Sale of the stock the world market

THE CURRENT CULTURAL WEB OF CSP

SYMBOLS

-IMPOSSIBLE MISSION-FRENCH VS US

PARADIGM

-ENGINEERS CLAN-PRAGMATISM-PROSPECTOR SPIRIT

POWER

-DOMINATED BY ENGINEERS-ACCQUIRED ON THE FIELD

-PROCEDURES NOT WELL FORMALIZED-DECENTRALIZED-DIRECT RELATIONS

ROUTINES

-ONSITE INTEGRATION-IF SUCCESFUL CAREER IS GURANTEED

STRUCTURE

PROBLEM OF CHANGING STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE

Diagnosis the cultural content of the structure

The levers of change

The reformers

The pitfalls of change

FUTURE CULTURAL WEB OF CSPSYMBOLS

-IMPOSSIBLE MISSION-CHANGE OF NAME

PARADIGM

-PRAGMATISM

POWER

-DOMINATED BY ENGINEERS AND MANAGERS

ROUTINES

-ONSITE INTEGRATION-PRACTICAL TRAINING

STRUCTURE

-FORMALIZED CHART

RESULTS OF ANALYSIS CSP is an engineer clan where power is obtained

In this company core business evolves from its oil exploration and onsite measurement of data analysis

what was a peripheral activity becomes core activity

These specialist have different paradigm

listed on the stock exchange

PRONS & CONS FOR CONSULTANTS

Too radical

Ideas for evolution

General managers seems to be more applicable

CONCLUSION

Controlling strategic decisions is based on two apect:

Formal aspect

Informal aspect

Managing informal structure is much more difficult than managing formal structure