Automakers

Ford 2000: A global program that failed

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By:
David Sedgwick Michelle Krebs
June 16, 2003 05:00 AM
Reinventing Ford

The goals of Ford 2000

  • Cut management ranks by 15%

  • Create 5 vehicle centers to design small cars, large cars, luxury cars, personal trucks, commercial trucks

  • Merge Ford operations in Europe and North America

  • Coordinate product plans with Mazda

  • Alex Trotman was nursing a bad head cold. It was 8 a.m. on Oct. 28, 1993, and Ford Motor Co.'s incoming chairman had called 30 top executives to meet at the automaker's Grafton Street office in London.

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