Building a leading global biologicals business

THE CHALLENGE

Bringing two entities together

A leading global agrochemical company needed to establish a new business unit focused on Agri-biologicals. This required combining their existing biological business with a recent acquisition. Both were quite different in structure and style. It was essential that the new entity’s operating model would support and deliver rapid revenue growth. And also leverage the strengths of the individual units pre-merger.

OUR SOLUTION

Ongoing support, strategy, and facilitation

Over a 9-month period, our team supported the Global Integration PMO with a focus on defining and delivering:

• The program structure, workstream definitions, overall timelines, and governance structure
• A managed process supporting workstream owners in developing future high-level operating models for global functions. This included resolving cross-functional interdependencies and identifying common processes, capabilities, etc.
• The approach, including process, tools, and resourcing, for designing the commercial Operating Models for key countries
• The change and communications approach in support of the workstream activities and decision making
• The PMO set-up for years two and three of follow-on implementation work in key countries, legal entity mergers, systems transformation, culture formation and other transformational activities

THE RESULTS

Operating Models successfully launched and active

Our team designed and supported a process that enabled the client to design, test, and implement a range of global and in-country operating models. Many of these are now operational. We played a key role in the growth and development of a new, combined leadership team. This included establishing new ways of working and aligning key cultural traits.