IDEA SQUAD: CASE STUDY

Company 1 2 3 4

Type Manufacturing Finance Retail Government

Location 2 Rural Plants across 400 miles within one country

Central office in Cayman, 20 service offices across 4 countries

250 stores across 10 countries

Country Government, 50 separate divisions

# Total Employees 200 500 1,000 2,000

# HR Employees 1 – centralized 3 – decentralized 8 – decentralized 15 - centralized

Issues/Concerns Overworked, not strategic, task oriented

Each office using its own standards and policies

Lack of unity and one purpose

Productivity and motivation

Structure an Idea Squad using the above parameters to answer the following:

1. Who participates?

2. Where will you meet and in what capacity?

3. How often are meetings?

4. Other thoughts…