Center for Research and Development

“The purpose of culture is
to teach people how to
see the world.”
                  — Mark Bodnarczuk

The Center for Research and Development conducts research on the formation, operational characteristics, and corporate life cycle changes of organizational culture and develops validated assessment tools that help leaders and managers learn how to harness the invisible power of their culture.

An organization’s culture is like its personality, with unique patterns of financial and non-financial performance that can be revealed using a variety of innovative assessment tools developed by the Breckenridge Institute. Advanced statistical techniques (like factor analysis and regression analysis) are used to identify effective and ineffective patterns of organizational performance, which subsequently form a quantitative basis for organizational improvement and change initiatives. The Center also develops the database architectures needed to store and manipulate these large data samples using Access, SQL Server, and Oracle platforms.

The frenetic pace of today’s global economy has increased the need for fact-based decision-making using scientific analytics, not just business experience and intuition. The Center for Research and Development is committed to giving leaders and managers the tools, methodologies, and quantitative information they need to make informed decisions and to transform their organization’s culture into a more reliable resource.

Personality in Context^®