Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Coors and Miller Lite plan to combine their U.S. brewing operations and compete together for a lion’s share of the market. Some describe it as a ganging up on Budweiser.  Can this new joint venture … to be called  MillerCoors really result in the predicted cost savings of $500 million? If it works ... who will really win?

Not surprisingly, the stock price of Coors has jumped today in light of this merger news. Fellow KMM blogger Gary Bourgeault shows an interesting angle that we could miss here. A closer look at recent mergers shows how coming together can dumb down both or raise IQs.

I’m interested in what it takes to merge the brain based business way – so that mutual benefits come to the firm and the community. Will this merger, for instance,  raise either industry’s IQ for business that the business community  can live with?

If you have similar concerns about this vast merger … what lessons would you take back to your own firm? From where I stand, business mergers with educational organizations are starting to show serious problems, for instance.

While there is money to be made … faculty report back that newly enforced one-size-fits-all approaches are more to make fast efficient money, and less to inspire innovative learning. Faculty tell us that speaking out to suggest changes for learning benefits or to include cutting edge practices, would likely cost their jobs. Yikes – how can this elevate business or education in our nation? Alliances can work though….

Check out the growing nurse entrepreneurs merging with business leaders to create brilliant alliances with benefits to clients.  No question, there are roadblocks, yet the few mergers I’ve seen here … tend to add the best from both sides. 

Have you seen it too? What would make a good merger from where you stand?