She also holds a bachelor’s of nursing from 400 BEST PRACTICES IN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND ORGANIZATION CHANGE... Over that time span Debra has been in many different roles, encompassi
Trang 1ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Andrew Starr is the director of clinical operations for St Luke’s Hospital His
primary responsibilities are managing the clinical and business aspects for mul-tiple departments in the perioperative service line Prior to his present position, Andrew was a performance management engineer for Premier, Inc His respon-sibilities included department based projects that have resulted in cost savings, revenue enhancement, and productivity enhancement in both clinical and non-clinical areas Andrew also worked in the health/managed care/life sciences practice of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young During his two years at CGEY, Andrew was involved with projects associated with business transformation and health care package implementation Andrew also has prior clinical experience as a dialysis technician His educational repertoire includes both a master’s degree
in business administration and master’s degree in health services administra-tion from Xavier University He also has a bachelor’s degree in biology from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego
Robert Zimmel is the senior vice president for human resources for St Luke’s
Hospital and Health Network He is responsible for all the human resource func-tions for the network Bob has been with St Luke’s for nineteen years and has served in various HR roles throughout his career He is currently a member of the President’s Council and serves as the chairperson of the leadership steering com-mittee for the leadership initiative for the network Bob received his B.S in busi-ness from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an M.A in personnel services and higher education from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania as well
Janice Bauer is the assistant vice president of patient care services Over the
past two years, Jan has served as a leader to multiple units, including the Emer-gency Department, CCU, ICU, and Trauma Department Jan has been part of the organization since 1979 and has served in a variety of positions Jan’s suc-cessful growth has included achievement in past positions such as nursing supervisor, nurse manager, administrative director of emergency services, and administrative director of trauma
Margaret Hayn is the assistant vice president of acute care and maternal child
health Prior to taking on this role, Margaret was the director of woman’s and children’s service line and continence management program Prior to these roles, Margaret also served in a variety of leadership roles during a fifteen-year tenure at St Luke’s Hospital Margaret has been involved in nursing for nearly thirty years Her distinguished academic record includes a master’s degree in nursing and in family practice She also holds a bachelor’s of nursing from
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Carol Kuplen is the vice president, senior nurse executive for St Luke’s
Hos-pital and Health Network Carol’s primary responsibility includes providing administrative oversight of nursing services for a five-hospital, nonprofit, inte-grated health care network Other responsibilities include developing and imple-menting nursing leadership philosophy, identifying outcome expectations, leading recruitment and retention initiatives, and facilitating the redesign of nursing care delivery systems Prior to her present position, Carol successfully served in other capacities within St Luke’s, including director of the Cancer Network Mrs Kuplen has also worked in various positions at other prestigious hospitals, including Georgetown University Medical Center and Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center Her educational repertoire includes M.S in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S in nursing from Georgetown University
Bob Weigand is the director of management training and development for
St Luke’s Hospital and Health Network He is responsible for designing, devel-oping, implementing, and evaluating leadership development programs through-out the network Weigand incorporates experiential learning into his training curriculum He has published articles and contributed to three books on the topic of training evaluation Weigand is certified in the Myers Briggs Type Inven-tory He currently is on the faculty of several local colleges, where he teaches part time Weigand was previously employed at the Reading Hospital, where his work included working with family practice residents on communication skills
He received his B.A in psychology from Ricker College in Houlton, Maine, and
a master’s in psychology from Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts
Debra Klepeiss currently functions in the role of senior hospital director,
oper-ations and service management at St Luke’s Allentown Campus She has been employed by St Luke’s Hospital and Health Network for twenty-eight years Over that time span Debra has been in many different roles, encompassing staff nursing, nursing management, human resources management, performance improvement, accreditation and compliance, organizational development, edu-cation, leadership development, service improvement, and patient satisfaction Klepeiss is a RN and has a human resources certificate, and a B.A in business management
Lisa Dutterer has been the vice president for ambulatory and ancillary services
for St Luke’s Hospital Allentown Campus since January 2001 Lisa is responsi-ble for all the outpatient services at the campus in addition to the allied health services that support the care of the inpatient Prior to her current position, she
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Trang 3was administrative director for the inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and Presbyterian Medical Center Lisa’s career in health care started as a licensed physical therapist at Germantown Hospital in Philadelphia She received her B.A in biology from Bridgewater College in 1988 and an M.S in physical therapy from Arcadia University in 1991
Sherry Rex is the director of human resources at St Luke’s Quakertown
Hos-pital Prior to joining St Luke’s, she served as the manager of benefits and
com-pensation at The Morning Call, a subsidiary of Tribune Publishing She was also
the payroll manager for the CoOpportunity Center, a shared services center for
Times Mirror, the prior parent company of The Morning Call Sherry also served
as the human resources and operations manager for the Bon-Ton Department Stores Following her graduation from college, she completed the executive train-ing program for Boscov’s Department Stores Sherry is a graduate of Widener University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in arts and sciences
John Hrubenek is director of property management, St Luke’s Hospital and
Health Network Prior to that position he was the director of support services
He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and business from Lafayette College and a master’s in business administration from Lehigh University
Donna Sabol is the assistant vice president of network performance
improve-ment for St Luke’s Hospital and Health Network Prior to her present position, Donna served in various positions within the health network, including direc-tor of organizational development Donna has been associated with St Luke’s for twenty years She is an RN and holds an M.S in nursing from DeSales University and a B.S in nursing from Wilkes University
Additional thanks to Francine Botek, Gary Guidetti, Ellen Novatnack, Steven Schweon, Charlotte Becker, Howard Cook, and Joe Pinto
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Aiming for a high-performance culture led StorageTek to develop a transformation plan that balanced traditional operational management with the innovation required to be competitive in the information technology industry A key element of the plan is successfully coordinating initiatives already embedded in the organization and supplementing
those initiatives with new thinking.
Figure 17.2: Definition of High-Performance Culture 408 Figure 17.3: Alignment to Build a High-Performance Culture 409
Table 17.1: Performance Measurement (Spring 2002) 413
Figure 17.5: StorageTek Timeline of Organization Transformation 419
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OVERVIEW
This change management case study describes the approach used by StorageTek
to develop and implement a transformational plan to establish the company as
a high-performance leader in the information technology (IT) industry After a series of ups and downs in its thirty-four year history, StorageTek® (Storage Technology Corp., NYSE:STK), during the later years of the 1990s and into the early years of 2000, was once again in a state of unbalance between operational management and the innovation required to be competitive Steps were taken
to turn the company around, but there was little improvement StorageTek lead-ership recognized the need for a systematic plan to transform the company into
a high-performance organization
The transformation plan outlined the steps to be taken in three stages Using best-practices research, StorageTek defined the high-performance organization and the leadership model required to implement the plan Both focused on results in a competent and open, trusting environment The second stage required working through the change by creating a focus on results, defining individual expectations, improving management competencies, and growing organizational capabilities Specific to this stage were improvements to perfor-mance management systems, communications, customer relationships, and many other areas The third stage of attaining and sustaining improvement is under way
In light of the economic downturn worldwide, the challenge was to continue
to follow the transformation plan Lessons learned are applicable to other orga-nizations beginning a major transformation or analyzing and implementing corrections to the current path
INTRODUCTION
Four IBM engineers with a dream of building better and less expensive tape dri-ves for data storage founded StorageTek in Boulder, Colorado, in 1969 Today, StorageTek is a $2 billion worldwide company with headquarters in Louisville, Colorado, and an innovator and global leader in virtual storage solutions for tape automation, disk storage systems, and storage networking The StorageTek head-quarters is about halfway between Denver and Boulder, Colorado, on a 450-acre campus in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains Of the approximately
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Trang 67,200 employees worldwide, about 2,200 are based in Colorado Among other benefits available to headquarters employees, there is on-site daycare, a med-ical center and pharmacy, and a wellness center, including a three-mile outdoor jogging trail
“Jesse Aweida, founder of StorageTechnology [now StorageTek] [1969] and CEO until 1984, was convinced that a high level of operational management and ‘just enough’ innovation would keep the company ahead of IBM” (Richard
Foster and Sarah Kaplan, Creative Destruction, Doubleday, 2001, p 90) From
1969 to 1981, the company experienced great success and rapid growth with the first product shipped in 1970, just fourteen months after start-up That was fol-lowed by the introduction of magnetic disk in 1973 By 1981, the company had grown to 13,000 employees and $603 million in revenue
The balance between operational management and innovation was difficult
to maintain, and StorageTek filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1984 Emerging from bankruptcy in 1987, StorageTek once again had a keen sense of its customer value proposition and business focus By 1990, the company reached $1 billion in revenue, and in 1992 the stock reached a record high of
$78 per share In the mid-1990s, the cultural focus was on creating a founda-tion for a company that was built to last StorageTek formalized its core purpose and core values (see sidebar) Unfortunately, by 2001, StorageTek was once again struggling There was no revenue growth in 2000 and 2001 and market share was eroding—StorageTek was left behind during the technology boom of the late 1990s and early 2000 Once again, the balance between operational management and “just enough” innovation had been lost
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Core Purpose
To expand the world’s access to information and knowledge.
Core Values
Share ownership for the relentless pursuit of results Provide superior customer partnerships
Innovate and renew Operate with honesty and integrity Above all else, value self and others
Over thirty-five years, StorageTek developed a unique corporate culture Like all corporate cultures, there were aspects that were very healthy and others that clearly got in the way of the goals of innovation, competitiveness, and balance
In the community, in the industry, and within the employee population, the company had a legacy of uneven performance and of hiring employees in good times and firing them in bad The company was known for starting lots and
Trang 7finishing little, and for rewarding “fire fighting” rather than permanent fixes A consensus and relationship-driven culture meant that decision making was slow and, even when decisions were made, they could be appealed and reversed One executive labeled it “the right of infinite appeal!” There was much to be proud
of, however In employee satisfaction surveys, employees reported that they felt valued and respected, and respected their colleagues Employees believed their work added value to the company Finally, employees said they had the flexibility to manage work-life balance
A New Chairman Confronts the Issues Patrick J Martin joined StorageTek in July 2000 as chairman, president, and CEO Pat was patient as he listened to customers, stockholders, and employees and learned about StorageTek and the storage industry in which the company competed He studied the strategy of the company He met talented employees and loyal customers Still, employee turnover approached 25 percent in 2000 as employees took their skills to more successful competitors The research and development budget was among the highest in the industry but generated few new products or technological innovations The company had an infrastructure that was too large, products that were consistently late to market, and arduous processes that made the company slow and difficult with which to do business
As true as during its earlier times, StorageTek needed to return to a balance between operational management and innovation Several interventions were tried The executive team turned over twelve of its fourteen key members in
2001 The CEO “taught” basic ROI (return on investment) via all-employee worldwide briefings using satellite downlinks Managers had too many goals, tasks, and initiatives upon which to focus, making achievement impossible A period of “blaming” occurred A “surprise” mid-year performance review was handled poorly in an environment in which performance management turned out to be “optional.” There was little improvement
DEFINE THE CHALLENGE
Transforming StorageTek into an industry leader where employees could grow their careers, confident customers could solve their IT challenges, and share-holders could receive a premium for their investment required a long-term plan For a company with a reputation for starting a lot and finishing little, it was important to set a transformation plan that could be sustained over time with
as little bureaucracy as possible
A scan of the company identified myriad different initiatives—all thoughtful, but disconnected from each other The desire for a high-performance culture was evident, yet the components and disciplines of such a culture had not been defined for StorageTek The first two components of transformation—strategic
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in place—core values defined by employees in 1996, a change model that bal-anced the quality of the technical strategy with the quality of the cultural strat-egy, and a fledgling quality system built as a first step toward Six Sigma It was important to build on those existing foundation pieces to avoid the perception of another “flavor of the month,” so prevalent within the StorageTek culture
The arrival of a new CEO had offered the opportunity for change Three months of planning by the organization development team (OD team) led to the development of a long-term transformation plan
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Figure 17.1 Phases of Transformation.
Stage
Define the challenge
Work through change
Attain and sustain improve-ment
Goals
Create a sense of urgency
Define the goal
Create a foundation
of results—focus Define individual expectations Improve manage-ment competency Grow organization capabilities
Sustain results—
focus Build sustainable future
Actions
Leadership conference Executive team building Defined high-performance organization Worldwide employee kick-offs Executive team building Performance and development goals for all employees Review HR practices for consistency Succession planning Founded affinity groups
Add workforce planning process Include “people strategy” in strategic planning
Tools and Techniques
Learning Map 1 BMS model and training
One Vision, One Voice
publication
Performance management Goal alignment tools Leadership required courses and curriculum Learning Map 2–
strategy update Closer to the customer
Employee survey Engineering excel-lence curriculum Technical talent pool development
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• Define the goal
• Create a sense of urgency
Define the Goal The first step was to define the high-performance culture that StorageTek intended to build The OD team conducted a review of literature and the
trans-formations of other companies, both successful and not “War for Talent,” The McKinsey Quarterly, 1998, Number 3, and “The War for Talent 2000,” revised
July 2001 along with a number of other sources, were particularly useful Con-currently, the OD team defined a leadership model based on a review of current
practice and literature Results-Based Leadership by David Ulrich, Jack Zenger
and Norm Smallwood was selected because of the focus on achieving results as well as possessing the competencies of leadership
The desired StorageTek high-performance culture was defined in three parts:
1 “Performance ethic is the relentless desire to satisfy customers and earn their loyalty, allowing us to out-perform our competitors A com-pelling core purpose, vision, and values; ambitious stretch goals focused on results; and performance feedback based on clear expecta-tions support a performance ethic.” This is measured by achievement
of annual goals
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High-performance culture
Performance ethic
3- and 5-yr total returns to shareholders— top 20% of all companies
Open and trusting environment
Effective growing organization
Achievement of annual goals
Employee survey
Customer loyalty and key business metrics
Figure 17.2 Definition of High-Performance Culture.
Trang 102 “An open, trusting environment enjoys open and candid communica-tion within the company; it requires everyone at every level of the organization to do what we say we will do; and provides growth for individuals and the organization through learning, knowledge sharing, and experience.” Open and trusting environment is measured by the annual worldwide employee satisfaction survey
3 “An effective and growing organization practices six capabilities of shared mindset, speed, accountability, collaboration, learning and
tal-ent” (from Results-Based Leadership by Ulrich, Zenger, and Smallwood,
1999, p 40) An effective and growing organization is measured by metrics, such as customer loyalty, revenue growth, market share improvement, and employee turnover rates
Measures already in place were selected to indicate progress in each of the three parts of the StorageTek high-performance culture Total shareholder return was selected to measure overall achievement; for StorageTek, share-holder return was characteristically below the industry average
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Market-driven product development and distribution Strategic planning
Collaborative learning organization
Performance management
Excellence in customer service and relationships Business
management system
External stakeholder management
Diversity and inclusion
Employee communication
Figure 17.3 Alignment to Build a High-Performance Culture.