I am part of the spin-off and am officially a Solventum employee. I will confess that I am not a big fan of the name. So far, my favorite one-liner about the name is that Solventum is better than Insolventum- that one made me smile.
On a serious note, I used to work with a woman from India named Sw-----a. She was a delight to work with. She was intelligent and pleasant, with excellent follow-through. In short, she was everything you could want in a colleague. Now as a Westerner, I always struggled with her name. In far eastern cultures, the Sw-----a has roots in Sanskrit and means “the mark of wellbeing.”
However, for many of us educated in the West, it is a symbol of all that was evil about the Na-is and Fascists. So, for one word and one symbol, I cannot think of another example of something with a broader meaning than that. Good and evil. Light and dark.
My point is this: While I am not enamored by the name, it is not a guarantee of success or a harbinger of failure. Whether the name is a good thing or a bad thing has everything to do with how our new leaders plan strategy and how the rest of us execute that strategy.
So, Solventum it is. I hope we make it something good.
Cheers All!