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Ford Motor Company Matching Gift Program' title='Ford Motor Company Matching Gift Program' />Ford CEO Jim Hackett Hints at Ambitious Automaker Plans. Some companies take a cookie cutter approach to selecting their CEOs. They might favor home grown talent, for instance, or engineers steeped in the companys products, or salespeople who excel at spinning a corporate yarn. The next CEO tends to look like the previous CEO, and will be followed by someone cut from the same cloth. The Ford Motor Co., on the other hand, follows no discernible pattern at all. In the past two decades alone it has toggled from an operations whiz Jacques Nasser to a young scion of its founding family Bill Ford to an exec who was an automotive neophyte Alan Mulally and back again to another true blue insider Mark Fields. Ford unveiled the Ford GT 67 Heritage Edition ahead of the Monterey Car Week festivities. In case you thought the regular Ford GT was dowdy and boring its not. Offers parts and accessories for late model and classic Mustangs. In the 1960s, Fords overheadcam 427 V8, popularly known as the Cammer, became the stuff of myth and legend. Heres the story behind the story. Ford Motor Company Matching Gift Program' title='Ford Motor Company Matching Gift Program' />With the unexpected sacking of Fields this spring and the appointment of 6. Steelcase CEO Jim Hackett, Ford has once again zigged where before it had zagged. Hackett isnt a car guy. And unlike Mulally, who had previously piloted Boeings commercial airplane business, he hasnt run a giant industrial concern. Instead, Hackett is as close to an intellectual as the executive suite is ever likely to see, a strategist obsessed by so called design thinking as a blueprint for doing business. As a young CEO, Hackett traveled annually to the chin stroking TED conference long before it was cool. Over the years he has drawn inspiration from thinkers as diverse as complex systems theorist Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute and the late University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler. Hackett was a reserve offensive lineman for the Wolverines in Schembechlers heyday. Jim Hackett, president and chief executive officer of Ford Motor Co. David Paul MorrisBloombergGetty Images. Having led Steelcase from cubicle purveyor to designer of sleek open plan offices, Hackett has a similar transformation in mind for Ford. Ford Motor Company Matching Gift Program' title='Ford Motor Company Matching Gift Program' />Mulally kept Ford out of bankruptcy during the financial crisis and invigorated the automaker, but lately the companys momentum has stalled. Its profits have been in decline, it is behind on electric vehicles and self driving cars, and its overreliance on the standout F 1. Ford a laggard in cities as the world becomes more and more urban. While rival GMs stock has soared 1. Fords share price has fallen 8. At a high levela level where Hackett frequently dwellshis plan for Ford revolves around focusing the company on revenue sources other than making vehicles with internal combustion engines. These include producing electric and autonomous cars as well as offering services like the Ford owned Chariot micro transit system and curb management software that eases congestion in cities. In an interview, he refers to the opportunities in front of Ford as a mobility smorgasbordmobility being a catch all phrase for nontraditional revenues at Ford. Says Hackett We dont want to cede the future to anybody else. Ford Motor Co. Super Duty Trucks move along the assembly line at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Kentucky, U. S., on Friday, Sept. The all new 2. 01. Ford F Series Super Duty pickup is one of the many cars, trucks, and utilities that UAW Ford workers build in the U. S. Photographer Luke SharrettBloomberg via Getty Images. Ford Motor Super Duty Trucks move along the assembly line at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville. As for specifics, Hackett is purposely vague for now. This summer he instituted a 1. And shortly before coming to San Francisco in mid August for a Ford sponsored conference on the future of cities, he presented his preliminary findings to a group of 3. Ford executives in Michigan. Hackett talks in terms of corporate fitness and says he wants to speed decision making at Ford. I have some things that are going to be coming out in the fall, he promises. One of the closest business relationships of Hacketts career is with the design firm IDEO, and specifically with its founder, David Kelley. Steelcase for years owned a controlling stake in IDEO, and Hackett and Kelley were so close that they constructed what they called a worm hole between Kelleys office in California and Hacketts in Grand Rapids, Mich. Using matching Cisco Tele. Presence systems, the two had cameras focused on each others desks all day long. I could engage him very efficiently, says Kelley, who also founded Stanfords famed d. It was all rather Jetsons like, says Kelley. I didnt have that with my wife, but I had that with Jim Hackett. Internet Manager With Crack And Patch Filehippo more. Creepiness of 2. Kelley Hackett relationship speaks volumes about how Fords new CEO intends to approach his job. Design thinking is something of a religion among its adherents, and Ford execs would do well to brush up on the gospel. At Steelcase, Kelley helped Hackett understand how contemporary office workers wanted to work. They were building cubicles, says Kelley. And it just hit Jim that the future was going to be about we space as much as I space. A Year In High Heels By Camilla Morton Pdf. Kelley believes design thinking, properly applied, represents nothing less than the changing of the culture at an organization like Ford. The old way was about disciplines. The new way will be about projects and understanding what people want. Kelley is no mere bystander observing Hacketts efforts at Ford. Hackett retired from Steelcase in 2. His tenure stands out for one major coup He successfully wooed San Francisco 4. Michigan alum Jim Harbaugh to Michigan to run the football program. Before leaving Steelcase he had joined the board of Ford, and in 2. One of his first acts was to set up Greenfield Labs in Palo Alto, with IDEO as the key partner. The name is a nod to Henry Fords outdoor museum in Dearborn, Mich. There, Ford and IDEO work in secret on future Ford products. After becoming CEO, Hackett hired IDEO to work on a larger engagement at corporate headquarters. Chariot, a San Francisco jitney service star tup, gives Ford a new business in urban markets. Hackett uses design thinking to inform everything he does. He is using the process of ideation and rapid prototyping to review everything at Ford from how it runs its parts and services organization to how capital is allocated in the product development process. Design thinking isnt a completely new concept at Ford. Its Escape crossover vehicle, for example, is one of several that has a function that allows owners to open a hatch by passing their foot under the rear bumper, the better to off load an armful of groceries without fumbling for a key. But IDEOs Kelley, who wont divulge what projects hes working on at Ford, predicts a radical change in corporate behavior. Therell be a bunch of short prototyping projects, he says. Most CEOs want a polished presentation. Jim wants to see the work really early on so he has some say over the direction. If there is a clear window into Hacketts vision of Fords future, it is in the downtown San Francisco offices of Chariot, the three year old jitney service started by entrepreneur Ali Vahabzadeh. Chariot operates a commuter service that cleverly crowdsources routes based on where riders live and work. Using 1. 4 passenger Ford Transit Wagons, it operates in San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, and, as of August, in New York City. It caters to individuals as well as to corporations who want to offer partly or wholly subsidized transportation but arent big enough to operate their own Google bus fleet. Chariot, says founder Vahabzadeh, employs all its drivers, just one of the ways it positions itself as the anti Uber.