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Helped BASF Corporation to connect with employees to successfully integrate an acquired company.
After completing a multibillion-dollar acquisition; BASF Corporation, a leading global chemical company, needed to connect with newly acquired employees to retain top talent and achieve integration objectives.
Senior leaders of corporate communications functions were asked to adapt their organizations to drive business performance, improve leadership communication, support transformation and behavior change and create sustainable success.
Supported United Airlines’ efforts to engage employees to implement sensitive operational changes.
To support United Airlines’ efforts associated with its bankruptcy/restructuring work, a business transformation office (BTO) at United was charged in 2003 with meeting aggressive debtor-in-possession (DIP) covenants set by Federal Court. United’s Operations team was the largest and most complex program, overseeing the activity of 11 projects encompassing three business divisions and the entire global network of airports. The team needed to engage employees to think and behave differently to transform how the company worked and reduce costs by $150 million by 2004.
Leadership from operations and corporate communications of an $8 billion producer of consumer durables and vehicle components realized that their existing model of getting results wouldn’t continue to deliver high performance for the future in a unionized environment.
Supported International Truck and Engine’s efforts to improve key metrics.
A chronic under-performing manufacturing plant at International Truck and Engine (now Navistar International) needed to make dramatic operating improvements and reduce costs and headcount to successfully launch a new model that the company was counting on to invigorate its 100-year-old brand.
