Brian E Mccarthy

US Patent:

6890397, May 10, 2005

Filed:

May 5, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/565972

Inventors:

Steven Craig Weirather - Lawrenceville GA, US
Brian R. McCarthy - Suwanee GA, US
Sunjay Yedehalli Mohan - Lawrenceville GA, US
Charles Thurmond Patterson - Clermont GA, US
Tony Lee Scroggs - Oakwood CA, US
Patricia L. Cross - Chesterland OH, US

Assignee:

Avery Dennison Corporation - Pasadena CA

International Classification:

B32B031/00

US Classification:

156248, 156257, 156253, 156259, 156268, 156267, 156270, 156271, 156269, 156277

Abstract:

A low density polyethylene film layer is extrusion coated on densified bleached kraft paper liner to form a film-coated liner sheet. A facestock sheet is adhered with a layer of hot melt adhesive to the film layer to form a laminate sheet web, which is rolled on a roll. The facestock sheet, the film layer and the adhesive layer together define a laminate feedstock. The roll is transported to and loaded on a press with the liner side up. One (or both) edge(s) of the web is (are) crushed with a calendering die to form thin lead-in edge(s). The web is die cut on the bottom face, up through the laminate facestock, but not through the paper liner, to form the perimeters of a grid of blank business cards or other printable media, with a waste paper frame of the laminate facestock encircling the grid. The web is then die cut from the top through the paper liner and to but not through the laminate facestock, to form liner strips covering the back face of the laminate facestock. According to one preferred embodiment of the invention, alternate ones of the strips are then pulled off of the laminate facestock web.

US Patent:

7288163, Oct 30, 2007

Filed:

Feb 13, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/366005

Inventors:

Steven Craig Weirather - Lawrenceville GA, US
Brian R. McCarthy - Suwanee GA, US
Sunjay Yedehalli Mohan - Lawrenceville GA, US
Charles Thurmond Patterson - Clermont GA, US
Tony Lee Scroggs - Oakwood GA, US
Patricia L. Cross - Chesterland OH, US
Arthur B. Moore - Pasadena CA, US

Assignee:

Avery Dennison Corporation - Pasadena CA

International Classification:

B32B 37/00

US Classification:

156248, 156257, 156259, 156268, 156270, 156271, 156277

Abstract:

A method of forming printable media including providing a laminate construction which includes (1) a film coated liner having a film layer on a liner and (2) a facestock adhered with an adhesive layer to the film layer of the film coated liner. The facestock, the film layer and the adhesive layer together form a laminate facestock. The facestock is cut to the liner to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media. Areas of the liner cover backsides of the facestock cut lines and thereby hold the printable media together for a printing operation on the printable media in a printer or copier and allow the printed media to be removed from the liner after the printing operation into individual printed media.

US Patent:

7374631, May 20, 2008

Filed:

Sep 22, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/158308

Inventors:

Steven Craig Weirather - Lawrenceville GA, US
Brian R. McCarthy - Suwanee GA, US
Sunjay Yedehalli Mohan - Lawrenceville GA, US
Charles Thurmond Patterson - Clermont GA, US
Tony Lee Scroggs - Oakwood GA, US
Patricia L. Cross - Chesterland OH, US
Arthur B. Moore - Pasadena CA, US

Assignee:

Avery Dennison Corporation - Pasadena CA

International Classification:

B37B 31/00

US Classification:

156248, 156257, 156259, 156268, 156270, 156271, 156277

Abstract:

A method of forming printable media using a laminate sheet construction which includes a film-coated liner sheet and a laminate facestock. A facestock sheet, a film layer and an adhesive layer together form the laminate facestock. The laminate facestock is cut through to the liner sheet to form facestock cut lines defining at least in part perimeters of printable media, such as rectangular business cards. An outer face of the liner sheet is cut through to form liner-sheet cut lines defining a plurality of liner sheet strips on a back side of the laminate facestock. The laminate sheet construction is sheeted into a plurality of sheets, each of the sheets includes a plurality of the printable media and at least one of the liner sheet strips. The sheets are fed through a printer or copier, desired indicia is printed on the media and the printed media then separated from the liner sheet strips of the sheet.

US Patent:

7930195, Apr 19, 2011

Filed:

May 21, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/443602

Inventors:

Herman R. Heyns - Weybridge, GB
Stuart Reilly - Egham, GB
Stewart Smythe - Farnham, GB
Brian F. McCarthy - Atlanta GA, US

Assignee:

Accenture Global Services Limited - Dublin

International Classification:

G06Q 90/00

US Classification:

705 7, 705 35

Abstract:

A target setting, forecasting, and budgeting method and tools are provided in which targets are selected at a high level of management through a process of strategic planning to select targets based on a combination of value expected to be added and manageability of the candidate targets, including computer simulations of increased cash flow expected to be generated by the target strategies. The strategically planned targets are then flowed down to the various levels of management, budgets are constructed around those target strategies, and the budgets are then consolidated and flowed upward. By defining organizational targets and then aligning those targets with strategic goals from the beginning, the number and scope of iterations of budget adjustments can be reduced.

US Patent:

8386297, Feb 26, 2013

Filed:

Aug 5, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/536201

Inventors:

Herman R. Heyns - Weybridge, GB
Stuart Reilly - Egham, GB
Stewart Smythe - Farnham, GB
Brian F. McCarthy - Atlanta GA, US

Assignee:

Accenture Global Services Limited - Dublin

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00

US Classification:

705 735, 705 736, 705 737, 705 738, 705 739

Abstract:

Target setting, forecasting, and budgeting methods and tools are provided in which targets are selected at a high level of management through a process of strategic planning to select targets based on a combination of value expected to be added and manageability of the candidate targets, including computer simulations of increased cash flow expected to be generated by the target strategies. The strategically planned targets are then flowed down to the various levels of management, budgets are constructed around those target strategies, and the budgets are then consolidated and flowed upward. By defining organizational targets and then aligning those targets with strategic goals from the beginning, the number and scope of iterations of budget adjustments can be reduced.

US Patent:

20040073467, Apr 15, 2004

Filed:

May 21, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/443177

Inventors:

Herman Heyns - Weybridge, GB
Stuart Reilly - Egham, GB
Stewart Smythe - Farnham, GB
Brian McCarthy - Atlanta GA, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/007000

Abstract:

Goals within an organization are selected by querying a computer database containing a plurality of metrics of various companies in order to visual compare metrics for the different companies and thereby select a set of potential goals for further evaluation, determining anticipated effects on the stock price of a company using a pricing model, determining an impact on future case flows of specific operating strategies by using a cash flow model, and selecting goals from the set of potential goals in accordance with the outputs of the cash flow model.

US Patent:

20040073477, Apr 15, 2004

Filed:

May 21, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/443187

Inventors:

Herman Heyns - Weybridge, GB
Stuart Reilly - Egham, GB
Stewart Smythe - Farnham, GB
Brian McCarthy - Atlanta GA, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/010000

Abstract:

Shareholder value is increased by improving forecast accuracy and improving management credibility. Forecasts are improved by utilizing and improved forecast method which includes analyzing graphical representations of performance metrics of similarly situated companies in order to identify realistic value enhancing business strategies, amending the budgeting and planning process to incorporate the realistic value enhancing business strategies as goals for the organization, affecting market expectations by communicating the improved forecast accuracies to investors, and improving management credibility by implementing the improved strategy formulations by adopting the improved forecast accuracies.

US Patent:

20110173050, Jul 14, 2011

Filed:

Feb 7, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/022181

Inventors:

Herman R. Heyns - Weybridge, GB
Stuart Reilly - Egham, GB
Stewart Smythe - Farnham, GB
Brian F. McCarthy - Atlanta GA, US

Assignee:

Accenture Global Services Limited - Dublin

International Classification:

G06Q 10/00

US Classification:

705 737

Abstract:

A holistic method of developing a strategic planning solution for a business organization by taking into account a broad array of components within the enterprise planning process includes affirming strategic objectives and the nature of corporate relationship, developing valuation and analyzing driver sensitivities, developing a business model for the organization based upon strategic objectives and sensitivities, developing performance measures and performance indicators, defining desired changes to implement in the corporate planning and reporting processes based upon the desired changes, and reviewing management skills and reward structures and modifying the reward structures in order to implement the identified desired changes.