Digital Strategy of Procter & Gamble: Becoming More Agile and Efficient

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Case Code : ITSY069
Case Length : 19 Pages
Period : 2000-2012
Organization: The Procter & Gamble Company
Pub Date : 2012
Teaching Note : Not Available
Industry : Consumer Packaged Goods
Countries : US; Global

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Global Business Services Division

In 1999, P&G formed its shared services division Global Business Services (GBS) to provide cost-effective business assistance globally - the company had, at the same time, shifted from a regional structure to a product-oriented approach with the creation of four Global Business Units - Fabric and Home Care; Paper; Beauty Care; Food and Beverage and Health Care. GBS had to equip P&G with superior IT, finance, facilities, and human resources...

Streamlining the Business Operations

McDonald and Passerini had singled out 88 specific business processes that steered the company's activities.

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For each of the processes the interval between the time the data flowed in and the time it was acted upon was calculated. Utilizing behavioral forecasting models technologies, it was established that the speed of taking decisions could be enhanced and the time lag in implementation was condensed. The goal was to operate the business in real-time and enable information access to everyone simultaneously...

P&G's Technological Innovations

Business Sphere
GBS wanted to equip the top management teams with all the information required to reach resolutions during meetings. It developed a conference room called Business Sphere which comprised a round table circumscribed by two television displays, each 30 foot wide...
Decision Cockpit
P&G's IT team aimed at equipping each of its employees with a decision cockpit which was an online website that displayed simple charts comprising information customized to the employee...

Digitizing Internal Collaborations

P&G wanted to cut down on the long-distance travel of its managers in order to curtail expenses. It also did not want to lose out on the benefits of live partnerships which were essential for innovation. In 2007, it opted for telepresence technology which allowed employees to reach out to one another from faraway places, through exclusively constructed studios that employed giant-sized high-clarity visual screens and state-of-the-art sound systems...

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