Motivating and driving strategic cross organizational change that sticks
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Jim Arena’s Summary
Jim is a proven technology executive with 20 years experience in creating new businesses and new revenue initiatives for Fortune 500 companies. He has a demonstrated operational track record in leading change with marketing/sales, supply chain, IT, HR and program management disciplines. He is particularly skilled at embedding and sustaining changes into company or business unit DNA. His in depth customer experience in Enterprise B2B, small-medium businesses, and consumer segments.
Energy and creativity is a large part of what makes Jim successful. He actively enjoys his family and is an avid cyclist. He's completed significant tours across the the US Rockies, Oregon and the South Island of New Zealand.
Types of transformation initiatives:
Challenge: In spite of conventional merger wisdom, HP/Compaq merger integration had to be successful to set the course for the new company.
Company wide: HP faced an overwhelming skeptical market that presumed no tech merger could be successful given the pace of market change. Jim, a member of the office of the CEO, was responsible for driving the decision making speed, across all Business Units, global functions and go to market motions. HP mobilized at VP and SVP levels, keeping tight coordination across 23 workstreams for 2 concurrent strategies - the day 1 experience and the 12-18 month integration plan. Jim developed and deployed the Decision Accelerator that drove alignment, visibility and the cadence for complex interdependent decisions across the 2000 person planning team, driving critical decisions and preventing revisiting decisions through regular CEO level steering committees.
Jim Arena’s Specialties:
Company or business unit reorganization, reallocating, mobilizing and motivating resources to few high impact strategic priorities, merger and acquisition integration.
