{"id":737553,"date":"2013-02-07T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=ad2ca453e0c5a19c16db5ae8b5d3557c"},"modified":"2013-02-07T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T15:16:59","slug":"how-pg-turned-acquisition-into-a-core-competency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/737553","title":{"rendered":"How P&amp;G Turned Acquisition into a Core Competency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n      \n\n      <div id=\"lafley-hbrc-video-insight-022\" align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/cdnapi.kaltura.com\/p\/506471\/sp\/50647100\/embedIframeJs\/uiconf_id\/6569262\/partner_id\/506471\"><\/script>\n<object id=\"kaltura_player_1360109326\" name=\"kaltura_player_1360109326\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowNetworking=\"all\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" height=\"356\" width=\"580\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/\" xmlns:media=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/searchmonkey\/media\/\" rel=\"media:video\" resource=\"http:\/\/cdnapi.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/cache_st\/1360109326\/wid\/_506471\/uiconf_id\/6569262\/entry_id\/1_dw6q8vnc\" data=\"http:\/\/cdnapi.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/cache_st\/1360109326\/wid\/_506471\/uiconf_id\/6569262\/entry_id\/1_dw6q8vnc\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"&\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/cdnapi.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/cache_st\/1360109326\/wid\/_506471\/uiconf_id\/6569262\/entry_id\/1_dw6q8vnc\" \/><a rel=\"media:thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/cdnsecakmi.kaltura.com\/p\/506471\/sp\/50647100\/thumbnail\/entry_id\/1_dw6q8vnc\/width\/120\/height\/90\/bgcolor\/000000\/type\/2\"><\/a> <span property=\"dc:description\" content=\"Has your company acquired a successful business that sells a product that's totally different from your existing offerings? If so, use insights about the new product to improve your existing offerings or develop new ones.\"><\/span><span property=\"media:title\" content=\"How P&G Turned an Acquisition into a Core Competency\"><\/span> <span property=\"media:width\" content=\"580\"><\/span><span property=\"media:height\" content=\"356\"><\/span> <span property=\"media:type\" content=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/span> <\/object>\n<\/div><br \/>\n<strong>A.G. Lafley<\/strong>, former chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble, led the company to think about fragrances in a new way and grew a successful new product line. He is the coauthor of the HBR Press book <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/books\/playing-to-win?referral=00060\"><em>Playing to Win<\/em><\/a>.\n      \n   <div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=OTTMplr36CA:pPO_17jdqJQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=OTTMplr36CA:pPO_17jdqJQ:bcOpcFrp8Mo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/harvardbusiness\/~4\/OTTMplr36CA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.G. Lafley, former chairman and CEO of Procter &#038; Gamble, led the company to think about fragrances in a new way and grew a successful new product line. He is the coauthor of the HBR Press book Playing to Win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-35S1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}