In many ways the archetypal Claus, a small manufacturing firm dies. With the profits went to the no-growth of the business and are not able to diversify, Charles Frost rate of a computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment to replace existing machines era 1940 screws. The case is designed to allow the discussion: 1) why they can not change? (They do not have unique skills and can not as an organization, to move from the existing processes that are focused on the current product), 2) whether the TNC can solve this problem and if they can afford it, and 3) how each functional area will have change if Claus to become "the ability house." "Hide
by W. Bruce Chew, Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy Source: Harvard Business School 11 pages. Publication Date: April 13, 1990. Prod. #: 690084-PDF-ENG
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