In early 2016 Alcoa’s management announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved a plan to separate Alcoa into two independent, publicly-traded companies, culminating Alcoa’s successful multi-year transformation. The separation will launch two industry-leading, Fortune 500 companies.

Google has restructured the entire corporation into a collection of companies under the holding company called Alphabet -which can be considered an excellent model of Shoaling formation.

Nucor’s philosophy matches with the maxim “small is beautiful” and believes they have gotten big by thinking small. While most of the steel manufacturers use large integrated steel mills, Nucor pioneered with mini- and micro-mills.

Hewlett Packard, after spanning eight decades of growth through mergers, joint ventures and global expansion, announced a corporate split in 2015 creating two fortune 100 companies namely Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and HP Inc. (HPQ).

With the strategy of operating in a decentralized and dispersed manner using a chain of contract brewers, Boston Beer was able to market its specialty crafted beers nationally without incurring shipping expenses. From 500 barrels per year during its inception years to brewing close to 2 million barrels per year now, Samuel Adams has grown to be the largest craft brewer with 1 per cent of the total US beer market (www.bostonbeer.com). The success of Samuel Adams has become an inspiration.

Culture is to a company as community is to a city: it's about values, innovation, serendipity, participation, upward mobility, and attraction of smart startups and the creative class. Tony Hsieh is applying his successful Zappos corporate culture model to help build the most community-focused large city in the world in the place you would least expect it: downtown Las Vegas.

Optimizing your business in response to these trends may have fragmented your value chain across global suppliers, customers, and channels, making it more difficult to navigate the economic turbulence. To simplify and address these complexities, organizations need to intelligently connect all parts of the value chain to quickly and easily share information with every department, employee, partner, customer. http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/docs/manufacturing/cisco_connected_manufacturing.pdf

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