After more than 80 years as a leading global
communications solutions provider, Motorola had grown to over
50,000 employees and $20 billion in revenue. Strategically,
however, the company was serving two distinct market and customer
segments. Therefore, Motorola decided to undertake a multi-year,
multi-phased enterprise-wide initiative to divide its business into
two standalone companies: one largely focused on the consumer
market and one on enterprise and government customers.
The company sought a trusted partner with sufficient
skills and experience to work collaboratively with them. Due to
Slalom Consulting's demonstrated delivery capabilities and
familiarity with Motorola's operations, organization and personnel,
Motorola chose Slalom to fulfill key roles in multiple functional
workteams as well as the corporate PMO which led the overall
effort.
Overall, the Separation Program was organized in a matrix
fashion that included 13 major work teams consisting of 119 sub
teams across the Business, IT, and Enterprise areas.
Slalom collaborated with Motorola by bringing experienced PMO
and PM personnel seeded in key positions in the IT PMO, IT, and
business/functional work streams. Senior PMOs and PMs were expected
to:
- Implement processes, tools, and procedures to improve
effectiveness while minimizing unnecessary overhead and effort
- Serve as the only non-Motorola leader on the small, overall
corporate PMO team in areas of overall program execution,
governance, and processes
- Drive overall IT interdependencies and financial tracking
- Manage plans and execution for IT Legal, IT Supply Chain,
Functional Finance and Functional Supply Chain global teams
- Manage integration and architecture considerations for the
Service & Repair organizations
With Slalom's contribution, Motorola successfully executed its
separation, completing the largest single transaction in the
company's more than 80-year history.
Over the course of the program, the Slalom team worked
side-by-side with their Motorola sponsors and teams, which was key
to Slalom's approach and delivery capability, as well as a key
point of value and differentiation recognized by Motorola. Our
resource knowledge and leadership experience enabled our team to
actively contribute in value-added ways that further enabled our
sponsors with trusted advisors and contributors.
