Succesful Merger in Ten Months
How do you succeed in merging two established traditional companies and create one company with one shared culture, where all 600 employees feel as a team – in less than a year? Jesper Hjulmand, Managing Director, and Charlotte Pommer, HR Manager, both in SEAS-NVE, were not in doubt. They applied the Pathfinder concepts.
In 2002-3 the management and all the bosses in SEAS – in all 28 people – participated in special company sessions under The Pathfinder Programme. The merger with NVE was under way in the following year, and the companies decided that the Pathfinder concept should be the principal management paradigm of the new merged company – SEAS-NVE. In the first instance 15 NVE managers joined the programme. Then the entire new top management level participated in a special merger module, a joint development created by internal counsellors at SEAS-NVE and Pathfinder. Subsequently 30 team leaders participated in a similar course, and in 2006 they went through the entire Pathfinder Programme.
Read the two Pathfinders' story about SEAS-NVE and The Pathfinder Effect:
Successful Merger in Ten Months