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Dec 2024
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510: P&G and Walmart: The Story Behind t...

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Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 510, an interview with the author of Collaborative Disruption, Tom Muccio.

 

In this episode, Tom Muccio shares his experience leading Procter & Gamble's collaboration with Walmart. By breaking down corporate barriers and focusing on mutual understanding, Tom helped both companies grow dramatically and expand their business from $350 million to $8 billion. His approach focuses on respect, testing new ideas, and challenging traditional business norms through transparent communication and shared strategic goals.

 

Tom Muccio was the architect and first team leader of the groundbreaking process that turned an adversarial relationship between Walmart and P&G into one that created dynamic a win-win for both companies and has now been replicated in thousands of Customer-Supplier relationships around the world. P&G-Walmart groundbreaking relationship is outlined in his book "Collaborative Disruption."

 

Get Tom's book here: https://shorturl.at/GDNgl
Collaborative Disruption: The Walmart and P&G Partnership That Changed Retail Forever

 

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