PQ Takes a Team at Oracle from Fuzzy to Precise Most managers face the persistent question of how to
develop executive-level thinking and communication skills
in the people who work for them, when those people rarely
have had the experience of seeing executives in action.
This was exactly the issue faced by Clare Dolan, a Vice
President at Oracle who was running the Oracle Academy.
Successfully delivering the Oracle Academy in over 70
countries worldwide, her team was great: highly intelligent,
experienced, and motivated. But something was preventing
them from efficiently getting traction on the tough issues.
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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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