International Machine and Tool used a matrix-style organization throughout its operations, modeled after the structure of other large, European-based global companies. Dr. Wilhelm Schlein, Chairman of IMT, summarized the organization as “a federation of national companies with a global coordination center—a distributed organization which has many homes.” Schlein’s strategy for building a decentralized, multidomestic enterprise was critical to achieving IMT’s goal of “think global, act local.”