Concordia Casting Company Case

Concordia Casting Company, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was a large, multidivisional organization that was originally an automobile part supplier, but has recently broadened its operations to include four business segments: automotive, machine tools, precision parts, and fluid control. Much of Concordia’s growth has come through acquisition. Concordia currently uses Centronic programs written by the Concordia staff as their company system. In 1989, Centronic Computers Inc. announced that they were discontinuing Concordia’s line of equipment and would no longer support it and also indicated that there was no migration path with their product line. T...