Ted Fick: Truck Accessory Manufacturing

Ted Fick recently joined the leading truck accessory manufacturer and marketer LTA Manufacturing. As company CEO, Fick oversees the four LTA brands, including LoadMaster, ATC Truck Covers, Jason Truck Caps and Ranch Fiberglass. LTA (Light Truck Accessories) currently manufactures their products from two manufacturing plants (Elkhart, Indiana, and Ottawa, Kansas). They are headquartered in Kansas City and specialize in fiberglass truck covers and cargo management solutions.

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Ted Fick: Experience Prior to LTA Manufacturing

Prior to accepting the position of CEO at LTA Manufacturing, Ted Fick served as the COO at Norca Engineered Products—a role he held from August to December of 2018. 

He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Truck Protection, Inc. (NTP) and Premium 2000—industry leading providers of warranties for commercial trucks. 

He served on these boards from 2016 to 2018.

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Ted Fick: Key Principles of Six Sigma

Ted Fick has worked in executive leadership—and change management—for most of his career—one that includes leading significant, multimillion-dollar transformations at such high-profile firms as the Port of Seattle, Polar Corporation and a $525 million division of Ingersoll Rand.

And one of Ted Fick’s foremost leadership strengths, particularly in the area of the organizational transformation has been his expertise in Lean Six Sigma—a proven, a well-established method for optimizing business efficiency and effectiveness.

Some of the more notable principles of Lean Six Sigma include:

·         Maintaining a focus on the customer—something which should always be at the heart of the decision-making process.

·         Identifying and understanding how the production process works (how the work gets done).

·         Managing, improving and smoothing the production of the process from A to Z.

·         Taking steps to remove steps with no value-add, as well as waste within the process.

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Ted Fick: Delivering High Performance and World-Class Results

Throughout his career, Ted Fick has come to be known as a transformative, results-driven business executive—someone capable of cultivating strong working partnerships, building high-performance teams and turning around underperforming organizations. Fick has proven himself highly adept not only at managing large-scale capital projects but also of driving continuous improvement, reducing costs, leveraging technology into enhancements in efficiency and developing new products.

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