Major Accomplishments:
He has cut costs by $750 million and orchestrated the largest acquisition ever at Motorola, the $17 billion purchase of cable equipment maker General Instruments Corp.
Lead the charge to implement a global HR metrics reporting system.
Rationale:
The creation of MV, a venture capital investment arm, a means for Motorola to access new technologies, new talent, and new markets.
Six Sigma (was coined by Motorola, Inc.) and is used as a symbol to denote the standard deviation or the measure of variation in a process. Six Sigma, is used to refer to a philosophy, goal or methodology to drive out waste, improve quality, cost and the time performance of any business. The greater the number of sigmas, the fewer the defects. The smaller the variation, the lower the cost.That can mean millions in dollars of savings after the investment of a fraction of that amount. This attention on measuring and reporting lead Motorola to build one of the world s first and largest HR metrics reporting systems.
Motorola has implemented a global HR metrics reporting system, over 1,200 HR professionals globally from a broad cross section of HR functional areas such as finance, staffing, recruiting and training can run and distribute the company’s human resources reports worldwide. This enables Motorola managers to obtain a global view of data in order to make important management decisions. Motorola employs approximately 97,000 employees worldwide. In an organization of this size, an in-depth understanding of headcount and other key human resources indicators is critical to the bottom line.
Quotations:
Everything has been modified or changed at the company,
Being fast, smart, quick, agile--this is what will make the company different so we can avoid the issues that occurred in our past,
About: Christopher B. Galvin
Christopher B. Galvin began working at Motorola in summer jobs in 1967 and joined the company full-time in 1973. For the next decade, he held sales, sales management, marketing management and product management assignments in the Communications Sector, the two-way radio business in that era.
In 1983, he joined Tegal Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola and manufacturer of plasma etching and stripping equipment for the semiconductor industry, as vice president, marketing sales and service. A year later he was named vice president and general manager of Tegal s U.S. operations.
He became vice president and director of the Communications Sector s Paging Division in Boynton Beach, Fla. in 1985, general manager of the division in 1986, and a corporate vice president in 1987. He moved to senior vice president and chief corporate staff officer in January, 1988, and became a member of the Policy and Operating Committees of the corporation. In May 1988, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Motorola, Inc. and elevated to an executive vice president in May 1989. In January, 1990, he joined the office of the CEO as senior executive vice president and assistant chief operating officer. He was elected president and chief operating officer in December, 1993, chief executive officer in January, 1997, and chairman of the board in June, 1999.
Galvin received a bachelor s degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and a master s degree with distinction from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern. He is a member of the Bechtel Corporations Board of Counselors, Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) Executive Committee, Business Council, American Society of Corporate Executives, the Hong Kong Chief Executive s Council of International Advisors, The Business Roundtable, the U.S./China Business Council, the Beijing Mayor s Advisory Board and the Catalyst Board; a trustee of Northwestern University and the American Enterprise Institute; an advisory board member for the American Society for Engineering Education and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center; and a director of the Illinois Coalition for Science and Technology. |
