Leadership and Management Development Case Studies

Developing Culture and Shared Values

Industry: Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Medical

A global biomedical device company faced the challenge of developing a common culture and shared, strategic values following major merger and acquisition activity. Wall Street was looking for synergy rather than a simple rollup and the stock price was suffering accordingly.

Critical Issues

• Unify employees from two different organizations and cultures
• Build a common value system given a global workforce

Solution/Results

Novations helped identify several areas that needed to be addressed in order to effectively progress in the merged environment: clarify what success looked like and how career growth happens, develop a succession plan to build bench strength, and align desired behaviors to organizational strategy.

Utilizing the Four Stages® of Contribution Model as the framework, Novations designed and implemented a global, integrated process for managing employee performance and development. This process included:

• Outlining the expectations of employees at all position levels and across a wide range of criteria
• Delivering customized development workshops with 360-degree feedback
• Developing a structured succession plan to build leadership capacity within the organization

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