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Post Acquisition Integration, Leadership - Financial Services  

 

Introduction: Post M&A

 

This organisation is a Financial Services business and a key component of the World's largest company by capitalisation (2008). This extremely successful USA business moved into Europe in the early 90's and started making major acquisitions in Financial Services.

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Partnership in Conservation

Culture Change in Conservation Charity

 

This organisation is well over a 100 years old and has close on a million members and subscribers within the UK.  Their energies are directed by an extremely vibrant management team, who long ago recognised that significant change only arises when you redesign and reshape the culture of the business.

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Empowering Teams

Transformational Leadership - Wines & Spirits Business

 

Competitive Advantage through Culture Change

 

This organisation is an extremely successful European producer and distributor of Wines & Spirits. The company has sponsored many change initiatives as befits its pre-eminence in the industry.

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Seamless teamworking

Management of Reputation & Complexity - Motor Finance

Major European Motor Finance Business

 

This organisation is a major provider of Motor Finance supporting their business which distributes several automotive brands within Europe, and having its headquarters in Germany. The intervention dates from 1994 until today.

Initially, the intervention was to work with a newly formed top team who had formed a separate Financial Services business in the UK, after moving away from a joint venture with a British high street Bank This organisation has its own Dealer Networks and works closely with the core Brands of the business.

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Organisational Change - Agricultural & Construction Equipment

 

Shaping Customer Focus: Development Internal Change Agent Skills

This organisation is a major provider of Agricultural and Construction Equipment, and is headquartered in the USA, with plants worldwide. The organisation had a turnover of $6bn and 20,000 staff until a recent acquisition pushed up the numbers to $14bn with a total of 35,000 employees.

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Change Management - Biotechnology

Total Quality Management in Biotechnology

 

This is a major organisation providing biological and genetic expertise. It currently operates in 49 geographies with its European HQ in Edinburgh, Scotland, and its US HQ in Alabama. At the time of the intervention, this organisation had a large number of Joint Ventures partners Worldwide.

 

Strategic Direction & Health Check

 

Initially, the intervention was to design a 'health check' to assess how well the organisation had developed a culture to support its growth in world markets. The diagnosis of the business

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