Case Studies

Global HR Transformation for Multinational Consumer Products Company
Challenge: Help worldwide business units to align against common HR practices

Outcome: Created and implemented a comprehensive change agenda impacting 48,000 colleagues across 70 countries. Resulted in new business models to increase efficiency and effectiveness by adopting global self-service tools. Reduced headcount and non-value added services and enabled local business units and global functions to make faster and better decisions.

Build Common Culture to Integrate Businesses and Align with Global Parent
Challenge: Integrating four distinctly different business unit cultures into one region of a larger global conglomerate

Outcome: Identified the distinct "DNA" of each culture to build a common high performance, values- oriented culture that leverages the equity of each and aligns with the global parent.

Organization Planning to Increase Effectiveness at a Global Banking and Financial Services Organization
Challenge: Better manage expectations and improve alignment and communication with management

Outcome: Clarified issues and opportunities, identified obstacles and constraints, provided planning tools and coaching to increase alignment between colleagues and management.

Organization Redesign to Enable Strategic Plan for Consumer Products Company
Challenge: Change organization design and ways of working to align with new strategy

Outcome: Redesign process accomplished through greater alignment cross-functionally, leveraging synergies, refocusing on core activities, broader spans of control and fewer layers, and elimination of non-value added activities.

Strategic Acquisition Shifting the Business Model at Beverage Company
Challenge: Creating a joined up organization that needs to change focus and 'go back to basics' to be successful in a highly competitive market

Outcome: Designed and implemented a comprehensive change plan to enable a shift in focus and priority. Resulted in a smooth integration with common performance management, recruitment, talent review and learning and development practices.

Innovative Organizational Culture at a Small Food and Beverage Company
Challenge: Change culture of a traditional heritage based and process oriented company to an innovative environment

Outcome: Developed far-reaching cultural enablers to increase new product innovations as a percentage of sales, including communication, training, reward and recognition, organization design and physical space design.

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Stephen R. Covey