Aligning Cultures and Strategies:
A Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer operating globally, focused on innovation, quality, and sustainability while leading in advanced mobility solutions.
Challenges
The client invested in a specialized company as a minority shareholder through a regional HQ, facing key challenges:
- Cultural Differences – Departments and teams from different organizations needed to collaborate despite starkly different company cultures.
- Employee Apprehension – Staff at the invested company were uncertain about the impact of this development.
- Alignment Across Leadership – Ensuring Japan HQ, regional HQ, and the specialized company shared clear, common objectives across short-, mid-, and long-term strategies.
Solution
JCO developed a customized multi-stage program to align teams and foster collaboration.
- Targeted Training – Initial training sessions for staff from all three organizations to establish a shared understanding
- Onsite Joint Workshop – A forum for open discussions on effective communication, teamwork in a remote world, cultural sensitivity, and differences in project planning and decision-making.
Through subgroup discussions, participants defined concrete action points to create not only efficient workflows but also trusting interpersonal relationships, ensuring long-term collaboration success.
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