PEAK TEAMS CASE STUDY - Hewlett Packard Finance

VISON AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Background

Hewlett Packard (HP) is the biggest technology company in the world, serving more than one billion customers across six continents and producing annual revenues in excess of $115 billion USD.

The global Finance function of 8000+ people is responsible for managing the company's overall financial activities. A major transformation of the function had been initiated by Cathie Lesjak, the executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Objectives

The primary objective was to create a new, community-led vision for HP Finance that would drive the transformation and engage employees in a journey towards world class.
Another key objective was to create a set of Guiding Principles and behaviors that would lay the foundations for a culture capable of executing the new vision.

Peak Team's Role

Together with the Finance Strategy and Transformation (FST) team, Peak Teams designed and delivered a program using our proven four step process of Engage, Inspire, Align and Enable.

The key design elements were to:

• Engage the organization with a bottom-up approach that would provide input from all areas and levels of the business, and every global region
• Inspire the audience with a mountain climbing theme to introduce the concepts of Vision (a distant summit) and Guiding Principles (Base Camp)
• Align people from across the organization with an interactive simulation called Reach for the Summit
• Enable participants through facilitated workshops on Vision and Guiding Principles

The delivery steps included:

1. Vision workshops to draft initial thoughts and ideas. The four workshops were held in different locations, and included a broad cross section of managers and employees from across the organization. Each workshop delivered a range of potential vision statements and recommendations for the Guiding Principles.
2. Facilitation of an FST offsite to review and refine the output from the workshops
3. A series of vision-testing workshops around the world to seek more input & ideas
4. Drafting a single Vision & set of Guiding Principles based the feedback from the organization
5. Creation of the final Vision and Guiding Principles at an offsite for the CFO staff
6. Provided online content to help communicate the new Vision globally