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Service: Transform and Integrate Cultures
Service Highlight # 1 A Tier One Supplier to the automotive industry asked us to help develop an integration strategy for the largest acquisition they have ever made. In fact the company they were acquiring was nearly twice their size! PDA consultants involved both the engineering and manufacturing disciplines in devising their integration and operations strategy. This first time union-management collaboration for the acquired company was considered radical. For the newly merged entity, productivity shot up and cost lowered in a short period of time. The VP in charge of the merger called PDA's work "a powerful intervention that propelled us in the right direction." Service Highlight # 2 A United States based aerospace company formed a joint venture by purchasing a 51% share of an existing aerospace service business in Singapore. Efforts by the new Anerican/Singaporean management team to implement changes to address workplace safety, cost reduction, cycle time reduction, and quality escapes were met with significant resistance by the local workforce. The inability to move forward on these initiatives threatened the viability of the joint venture. Using PDA's expertise, the joint venture company established a shared sense of identity and purpose and gained employee commitment to move forward on the stalled initiatives. Service Highlight # 3 A major manufacturing company was moving to integrated produce development that would necessitate the merging of the engineering and manufacturing cultures. PDA consultants worked with an internal change team to devise a change roadmap to engage cross functional teams of engineers and operations people in designing the new organizational structure and work processes. One participant summed up the result when he commented, "When we started out I had no idea what Integrated Product Development was. Then I saw it on my team. I saw how we complemented each other. This is a great process and this will be a great organization." Service Highlight # 4 Having just merged a US based and a German based company, the new company needed to align its entire global organization on a mission and a shared set of values, beliefs and visions. Both original companies had developed missions, visions and values statements and the new company had to find a way to coalesce an entire organization on the best of each. Over the course of four months, PDA worked with employees worldwide and engaged them in small and large group discussions, locally and virtually. Small groups provided inputs to regional groups that synthesized their inputs and passed them to the global leadership team. This team, comprised of staff from around the world and equally distributed across the two companies, integrated the inputs from the various forums and submitted the new drafts to the Senior Management Team. Once fine-tuned by the leaders, the final global mission, vision and values were rolled out to the entire company. Service Highlight # 5 In 1998, an international company decided to merge two operations in Berlin. One plant existed in the old West and the other in the old East Berlin. Both plants were outdated and both made similar products for the drug industry. As you could imagine, they had very different cultures and each viewed the other with great disdain. In the new operation, staff from both sites would be combined and forced to work side-by-side with each other. The challenge thus became, not how do we build a new plant to house these two cultures, but rather, how do we build one culture and overcome the biases of the past in operating the new plant successfully. |
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Workshop Refund Policy: The full cost less a $50 administrative fee will be refunded for cancellations received up to five days in advance of the workshop. No refunds will be given for cancellations received less than five days before the workshop. |
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Our whole system approach engages critical components of organizations in the change effort and enables our clients to create and integrate culture smoothly and quickly during mergers, acquistions or other major changes.