At the beginning of 2009, this large enterprise stared into an uncertain future. Normally at least half of its operating companies would perform well providing underpinning support to those in negative economic cycles. But at the outset of 2009 the ‘perfect storm’ was brewing for the company in which all the operating companies were heading [...]
QBE is one of Australia’s largest insurers with a major and fast-growing presence in Europe, employing close to 3000 by 2010 – growth fuelled by good performance and acquisitions. The European strategy had last been updated in 2004 and had served well delivering year on year. But at the highest levels there was a sense [...]
A series of bite-sized case studies from the Engage for Change archives DLA Piper: vision to reality 2019 to 2014 Our partnership continued with the Finance and Projects practice which in 2009 embarked on devising a refreshed business vision and strategy around the idea of relevance. We designed and facilitated the engagement of the practice [...]
In 2009 T1UK was in the eye of a storm afflicting the global economy. T1UK has been a citizen of the UK oil industry for many years and a part of the community in its many locations around the UK. The perfect storm amounted to losses in its operating units, an experience being repeated across [...]
Thomas Cook leads the travel industry when it comes to customer service, but as part of the introduction of a new strategy to all 17,000 staff in the UK and Ireland, it intended to differentiate itself even more through outstanding customer service and service innovation to drive operational cost savings and efficiencies. Engage for Change designed [...]
You may be familiar with Zurich’s advertising line: ‘Because change happenz’. It’s much more than an external brand image. The company has itself gone through a major transformation under the leadership of Jim Schiro. Change is definitely happening within Zurich. Having engineered the financial turn around of the corporation over the last four years, the leadership [...]
Rockwell Collins Inc. is a pioneer in the development and deployment of innovative avionics, communications and electronics solutions for commercial and government applications, headquartered in Cedar Rapids Iowa USA. The company’s expertise in avionics, electronics, communications, information management and simulation and training is delivered by more than 20,000 employees, and a global service and support [...]
Engage for Change facilitated a high speed, dynamic engagement of 140 leaders at a major housing association to contribute the basis for a ten-year vision. Using our team size escalation process people worked alone at first to respond to two simple ‘exam questions’ - essentially what could great look like to key stakeholders in ten [...]
For the second year running Stewarts Law, the international litigation practice, invited John Smythe to design and facilitate their business strategy meeting attended by the top 50 or so lawyers. The meeting had to meet two objectives; provide robust solutions to deliver the near term business strategy and think out to 2025 to frame the [...]
