{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Map the Gap","title":"Navigating Tech M&A: Leadership & Alignment with Mark Sunday (ex-CIO, Oracle) - Part 2","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/5ff39280\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4635,"description":"Welcome back to the \"Map The Gap\" podcast. Join your host, Greg Little, CEO and Founder of Grodivo.ai, as he sits down with a titan of the tech industry: Mark Sunday, the former global CIO and SVP of Oracle, and current Chair of Grodivo.ai's Board of Advisors.\nToday, Mark pulls back the curtain on the harsh realities of massive M&A integrations. We discuss how Oracle centralized its global operations, why keeping a startup's \"mojo\" alive is the hardest part of an acquisition, and the massive shifts required to move to the cloud. Mark explains why you can recover from a bad decision but never from indecision, and why alignment is truly the \"operating system\" of any business—metrics that finally belong in the boardroom. Let’s get back into it.\n\nEpisode Highlights:\n00:01:47 - The balancing act of post-merger integration: Assimilation vs. breaking the business\n00:05:45 - Managing domain knowledge by keeping industry vertical units autonomous\n00:07:56 - The NetSuite playbook: Why Oracle left a fine-tuned machine alone\n00:14:01 - Larry Ellison's concentric circles of leadership and intestinal fortitude\n00:16:42 - Shifting Oracle from a \"Weak King, Strong Duke\" model to global centralization\n00:22:10 - The operational catalyst: How Latin America led the global ERP rollout\n00:24:25 - Defining alignment and culture as the literal \"Operating System\" of an enterprise\n00:26:34 - The friction and carnage of the Sun Microsystems integration\n00:34:30 - Pre-acquisition due diligence: Evaluating the \"Quality of Culture\"\n00:38:50 - Shifting from intuition to real-time statistical process control for people\n00:41:05 - Visualizing the mission: Why every conference room at Siebel was named for a customer\n00:47:14 - Building an internal YouTube: Standardizing learning on a global scale\n00:54:34 - Designing agile Scrum teams with cultural compatibility metrics\n01:03:00 - Moving beyond employee happiness to measure true operational effectiveness\nResources & Links:\nLearn more about the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/To1Ob7r_QjnA4abhLq0CDl7DJn7_StgPMWpluaqyQrM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYTA4/YzFiMzVjYWQyZjhk/ODcyNjI3MDZhYTMx/ZThiYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}