HomeAutomationSolutions hired your consultancy group to advise them on some important dilemmas. HomeAutomationSolutions (HAS) is a relatively young organization that creates easy to use home automation hardware worldwide; they have subsidiaries in Japan, United States, Sweden, Chile, Belgium, Germany, Angola and Indonesia.
Their mission is to create innovative technical solutions for everyday life. Their vision is to be creative and sensitive to the cultural preferences of the customers and employees of the countries in which they operate.
Although pragmatism, innovation and creativity are important in every country, HAS wants to adjust their company practices to the needs of each specific culture. In fact, this flexibility is consistent with one of their core values, pragmatism.
The newest subsidiary was opened in Sweden a few years ago. Because HAS knows relatively little about the Swedish culture, they hired you to advise them on some important issues. For each dilemma, the company wants your team to choose the option that best fits to the Swedish culture.