Canon, the world's leading makers of copiers and laser printers, has also taken a disciplined approach to performance improvement. CEO replaced every manufacturing line at the firm's 29 Japanese factories with small, self-directed team of half a dozen worker that do the work previously done by 30 labourers. The team discovers more efficient inventory management techniques, and Canon was able to close 20 of its 34 parts warehouses. "Manufacturing is where most of the costs lie," Mitarai claims. Canon earning improved by 53 percent, enabling Mitarai to conclude, "We are much more profitable today because of these changes."
One Shell. Nearly all of the companies that we work with today are trying hard to integrate the disparate parts of their far-flung global empires into one coherent whole. "Enterprise thinking" refers to the mindset that allows people to act on behalf of the organization as a whole, rather than representing just one part of it. Even when companies grow organically, it is often harder than it looks. Consider this story: after around of golf, legendary GE CEO Jack Welch allegedly asked equally legendary Canon CEO if it was possible to get one global price and service agreement for Canon copiers for GE worldwide. Mitarai-san confirmed that they could do it. But when Mitarai went back to his organization, he heard a different story. Because of the structure of Canon's highly successful regional sales companies in the U.S. and Europe, it took a lot of extra work to negotiate one global price and one service agreement. Global integration is a big challenge. But when company grow through acquisition, the challenge is even greater. When Hewlett Packard acquired IT solutions provider EDS, the combination was irresistible. H-P sold products. EDS services. The merger offered them both a way to compete more directly with the giant in their industry, IBM Global Services. But achieving the high-quality integration necessary to fulfill the promise takes a lot of time and effort. When Canon acquired the Dutch printing and solution company Oce in 2009, the stake were even higher. Not only this they need to integrate products and solutions such as HP and EDS, but they also needed to do so across national boundaries. Canon was Japanese, Oce was Dutch, and the Americas were a big competitive market, where the integration needed to go smoothly in order to make the acquisition a success.
Canon, the world's leading makers of copiers and laser printers, has also taken a disciplined approach to performance improvement. CEO replaced every manufacturing line at the firm's 29 Japanese factories with small, self-directed team of half a dozen worker that do the work previously done by 30 labourers. The team discovers more efficient inventory management techniques, and Canon was able to close 20 of its 34 parts warehouses. "Manufacturing is where most of the costs lie," Mitarai claims. Canon earning improved by 53 percent, enabling Mitarai to conclude, "We are much more profitable today because of these changes."
One Shell. Nearly all of the companies that we work with today are trying hard to integrate the disparate parts of their far-flung global empires into one coherent whole. "Enterprise thinking" refers to the mindset that allows people to act on behalf of the organization as a whole, rather than representing just one part of it. Even when companies grow organically, it is often harder than it looks. Consider this story: after around of golf, legendary GE CEO Jack Welch allegedly asked equally legendary Canon CEO if it was possible to get one global price and service agreement for Canon copiers for GE worldwide. Mitarai-san confirmed that they could do it. But when Mitarai went back to his organization, he heard a different story. Because of the structure of Canon's highly successful regional sales companies in the U.S. and Europe, it took a lot of extra work to negotiate one global price and one service agreement. Global integration is a big challenge. But when company grow through acquisition, the challenge is even greater. When Hewlett Packard acquired IT solutions provider EDS, the combination was irresistible. H-P sold products. EDS services. The merger offered them both a way to compete more directly with the giant in their industry, IBM Global Services. But achieving the high-quality integration necessary to fulfill the promise takes a lot of time and effort. When Canon acquired the Dutch printing and solution company Oce in 2009, the stake were even higher. Not only this they need to integrate products and solutions such as HP and EDS, but they also needed to do so across national boundaries. Canon was Japanese, Oce was Dutch, and the Americas were a big competitive market, where the integration needed to go smoothly in order to make the acquisition a success.
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