PQ Takes a Team at Oracle from Fuzzy to Precise Clare Dolan, Oracle Vice President, runs Oracle Academy. Her team successfully delivers Oracle Academy content in over 70 countries worldwide. Clare became known at Oracle for using Precision Q+A, a set of intellectual tools that offers a core set of analytical ideas along with a category framework for questions and answers. Using Precision Q+A allows for tightly aligned questions and answers that promote problem solving and effective teamwork.
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PQ Improves Execution at Cypress Semiconductor In the early 1990’s Cypress Semiconductor followed a strategy of creating cutting-edge fabrication processes at its R&D site
and transferring these processes to manufacturing sites. The company’s ability to fill orders for next-generation
products depended on flawless execution of these site-to-site handoffs. Tony Alvarez, Vice President of Research &
Development at the time, comments, “In 1995, when we jumped to our next generation of technology, the sudden
growth in complexity almost ate us alive.” Teams began to slip on milestones; executives weren’t getting
the answers they wanted; morale was sagging.
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