Manufacturing networks: Connecticut's experience Alan Kendrix
	Director Flexible Manufacturing Network Center 185 Main St. New Britain, CT 06051 tel: (860) 827-4471 (office) fax: (860) 827-4475
	e-mail: kendrixa@ccsua.ctstateu.edu
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Alan Kendrix has more than 20 years of private sector experience with Fortune 500 companies including the Coca-Cola Company and AT&T where he held key product management, market management, field market management positions. In fact, it was when he was Connect Market Manager for Coca-Cola USA that he became aware of the power of Inter Firm Collaboration (IFC) .He facilitated collaborative marketing and production projects that helped Bottlers (5 bottlers) in his region grow market sales share by more than 75% in a little more than 2 years during the mid 1980's. Later, he became active in providing business, marketing and financial consulting services to small and mid-sized firms, in Connecticut, using collaborative strategies when ever possible. In his present assignment, as Director for the Flexible Manufacturing Networks Center at the Institute for Industrial and Engineering Technology (an outreach function of Central Connecticut University), he has started a state funded program that promotes IFC. In a little more than three year his center helped in the formation of many varied types of networks. He is very interested in the effect of "market forces" on IFCs and is currently documenting his observations on "market forces"at work in "Opportunity Based Networks" specifically with and around commercial product development networks.