At Ford Motor, where Hackett replaced Mark Fields as chief executive Monday, things had definitely been getting worse. "You won't hear us talking about emerging business vs. core business," said Bill Ford, the company's executive chairman and great-grandson of founder Henry Ford. "This is one Ford Motor company...We don’t want competing groups within Ford - the cool group and the left-out group. Ford Smart Mobility will continue as a subsidiary within Ford, he said, to develop new business models and invent new technologies. Under Hackett, Steelcase promoted the idea of collaborative workspaces, dispensing with dreary cubicles that isolated workers and embracing open offices rigged with the latest technology.

Source: Forbes May 22, 2017 21:24 UTC