Lessons in Cultural Assessment From an Internationally Expanding Company

When a company grows through M&A, each transaction shifts company culture. As a result, it is critical for the compliance team to have ways to measure and track that culture through every integration process to make sure that the larger company maintains and strengthens its culture. Computacenter, a U.K.-based IT company, built its compliance function in North America beginning in 2018 through a series of acquisitions. As the company grew, that team became adept at assessing and fostering a culture of compliance, so much so that it was then tapped to oversee compliance in the parent company’s Asia Pacific and Mexico operations, as well. Members of the company’s compliance team shared their insights on assessing company culture using both quantitative and qualitative measures in a Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics conference session in August. This article distills some of their comments. See “Survey Finds Increased Value in Having a Culture of Compliance” (Feb. 26, 2025).

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