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CapitalWorks - A Six Disciplines Client Case Study Part 2

Six Disciplines

KKSP Precision Machining in Glendale Heights, Illinois, is a manufacturer of high-volume, precision made-to-print automatic screw machine products for automotive, medical/veterinary, appliance, HVAC and aerospace markets. The company serves a wide variety of OEM manufacturers and industrial production facilities.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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Will China Bring Your Firm New Owners, Partners, or Competitors?

Harvard Business Review

But Chinese companies of all sizes are already operating in the U.S. During the global financial crisis, Robert Remenar, CEO of Nexteer, a Michigan-based automotive steering firm, deliberately searched for potential new Chinese owners. In 2010, Chinese firm AVIC Automotive purchased Nexteer for $465 million. in a big way.

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As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015.

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The Rise of the COO

Harvard Business Review

Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Suggestions ranged from streamlining operational processes, saving thousands of hours annually, to simplifying financial and sales processes across business units. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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Ten Years After Ford’s Spectacular Turnaround, What Alan Mulally Reveals About Brand-Inspired Cultural Revolution

Great Leadership By Dan

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership. In 2010, Motor Trend named one of Ford’s newest cars, the Ford Fusion, “Car of the Year.”

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