{"id":24154,"date":"2015-04-02T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kepner-tregoe.com\/kt-case-study-how-kt-clear-thinking-helped-interbake-foods-find-success\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T14:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:38:32","slug":"kt-case-study-how-kt-clear-thinking-helped-interbake-foods-find-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.kepner-tregoe.com\/zh-hans\/blogs\/kt-case-study-how-kt-clear-thinking-helped-interbake-foods-find-success\/","title":{"rendered":"KT Case Study: How KT Clear Thinking Helped Interbake Foods Find Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why don\u2019t companies spend more time and resources to develop clear and rational thinking processes for their organizations\u2014and more importantly,\u00a0employees? First, according to Ray Baxter, CEO of Kepner-Tregoe, is that many organizations don\u2019t fully understand the importance of learning how to think. Another reason is that some executives\u2014who newly understand the power of critical thinking as a business advantage\u2014 have the illusion that a \u201conce-and-done\u201d training approach is the way to successful implementation. Finally, according to Baxter, is that executives simply aren\u2019t up to the challenge of implementing the changes that need to be made to transform their companies into thinking organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.kepner-tregoe.com\/whitepapers\/creating-a-thinking-organization-a-case-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creating a Thinking Organization: A Case Study<\/a> and learn how Interbake Foods, a Richmond, Virginia-based food processing company famous for their role in delivering millions of Girl Scout cookies each year implemented KT Clear Thinking and achieved impressive results\u2014including doubling their pounds produced per employee while cutting plant overhead cost per pound produced in half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why don\u2019t companies spend more time and resources to develop clear and rational thinking processes for their organizations\u2014and more importantly,\u00a0employees? First, according to Ray Baxter, CEO of Kepner-Tregoe, is that many organizations don\u2019t fully understand the importance of learning how to think. Another reason is that some executives\u2014who newly understand the power of critical thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[163],"class_list":["post-24154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.6 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KT Case Study: How KT Clear Thinking Helped Interbake Foods Find Success - Kepner-Tregoe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why don&#039;t companies spend more time and resources to develop clear and rational thinking processes for their organizations?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KT Case Study: How KT Clear Thinking Helped Interbake Foods Find Success\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Why don&#039;t companies spend more time and resources to develop clear and rational thinking processes for their organizations?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.kepner-tregoe.com\/zh-hans\/blogs\/kt-case-study-how-kt-clear-thinking-helped-interbake-foods-find-success\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Kepner-Tregoe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-04-02T10:58:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-10T14:38:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anna Sza\u0142kiewicz\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Magnus S\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/staging.kepner-tregoe.com\\\/zh-hans\\\/blogs\\\/kt-case-study-how-kt-clear-thinking-helped-interbake-foods-find-success\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/staging.kepner-tregoe.com\\\/zh-hans\\\/blogs\\\/kt-case-study-how-kt-clear-thinking-helped-interbake-foods-find-success\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Magnus S\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/staging.kepner-tregoe.com\\\/zh-hans\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1a1186f578c65c1684853105d071ac06\"},\"headline\":\"KT Case Study: How KT Clear Thinking Helped Interbake Foods Find Success\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-04-02T10:58:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-10T14:38:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/staging.kepner-tregoe.com\\\/zh-hans\\\/blogs\\\/kt-case-study-how-kt-clear-thinking-helped-interbake-foods-find-success\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":177,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/staging.kepner-tregoe.com\\\/zh-hans\\\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"zh-hans\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/staging.kepner-tregoe.com\\\/zh-hans\\\/blogs\\\/kt-case-study-how-kt-clear-thinking-helped-interbake-foods-find-success\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/staging.kepner-tregoe.com\\\/zh-hans\\\/blogs\\\/kt-case-study-how-kt-clear-thinking-helped-interbake-foods-find-success\\\/\",\"name\":\"KT Case Study: How KT Clear Thinking Helped Interbake Foods Find Success - 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