Word: packard
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...combination looks like a good match. NCR, known for its electronic cash registers and automated-teller machines, is a leading maker of midsize and desktop computers. With revenues of $5.96 billion last year, it is the fifth largest U.S. computer manufacturer (after IBM, Digital Equipment, Unisys and Hewlett-Packard). What excites AT&T, however, is not NCR's market share but the potential for linking its own long-distance telephone system to NCR's worldwide network of cash registers and ATMs. That would give AT&T significant entree into the exploding business of processing transactions for retailing and financial-services...
...Saturn's progressive ideas sprang up in Tennessee. Many were borrowed from around the world by the Group of 99, a team of Saturn workers who traveled 2 million miles in 1984 and looked into some 160 pioneering enterprises, including Hewlett-Packard, McDonald's, Volvo, Kawasaki and Nissan. Their main conclusions: that most successful companies provide employees with a sense of ownership, have few and flexible guidelines and impose virtually no job-defining shop rules...
...company. More important, his huge reorganization of the company in the mid-1980s is finally creating some cooperation between GM's far-flung divisions. One major change has taken place in its Automotive Components Group, a $33 billion operation. Because the companies in the group (examples: Harrison Radiator, Packard Electric, Inland Fisher Guide) were captives, there was traditionally no incentive for them to offer competitive prices. GM now insists that its parts makers stand on their own, which has done wonders. The Delco Maraine division has cut 70% from the cost of manufacturing antilock brake systems...
...Hewlett-Packard is spending nearly two years and $40 million designing a "factory of the future," scheduled to open in Puerto Rico next year, where computer-systems employees will be hired on the basis of their creative potential. Judging that kind of potential is the business of Ned Herrmann, whose North Carolina-based Applied Creative Services runs workshops on "whole-brain theory." Herrmann, who spent 35 years at General Electric, a dozen of them as head of management education, has cooked up a test called the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, which includes such queries as "Have you ever experienced motion...
...There are so many other, newer conundrums in the secret-infested town of Twin Peaks. Like who is the one-armed man and how did he really lose his arm? What was the relationship between Laura and the creepy psychiatrist, Dr. Jacoby? What has Hank Jennings got on Josie Packard...