235 Services Marketing Group 7: Case Solution ~ Sullivan Ford Auto World Feb. 2012 21 Case Background Walter Sullivan the founder of Sullivan Ford Auto World died and his eldest daughter Carol Sullivan-Diaz‚ a health care manager by profession took over the business and found out that the family business is in financial trouble based on current financial performance and market outlook. In addition‚ CSAT results from car buyers show that the company has problems with their service quality
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Executive Summary Ford is one of the leading companies in the auto industry. The director of Supply Chain Systems at Ford was put in a tough position to make recommendations with regards to the company’s supply chain strategy. There are two groups within Ford that have two different opinions on how Ford should be using emerging information technologies and ideas from high tech industries‚ such as Dell‚ to change the way it interacts with suppliers. The first group argued that Ford should adopt Dell’s
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– Business Ethics & Social Responsibility | Jan Ruder‚ Ph.D. November 11‚ 2007 2. It’s 1973 and I am the Recall Coordinator for Ford Motor Company. Field reports are coming in reporting the following: Rear-end collisions‚ Fires‚ and Fatalities. I must decide whether to recall the Pinto. (Case: Pinto Fires‚ Trevino & Nelson‚ p. 115) 3. Before the Pinto‚ Ford was immersed in an intense‚ internal struggle between “Bunky” Knudson and Lee Iacocca over the company’s product line. ● Major pressure
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target groups should Ford focus with the selling of their new Ford Ka on the French small car market‚ to obtain a third of Renault’s market share within three years? 1.2 Market definition The market in which Ford Ka will operate‚ is the small car market in France. By small car market we mean category A & B‚ cars that are less than 390 cm long. Other cars are excluded‚ because the lack of information about this cars. 2. Internal analysis 2.1 Financial performance Ford word-wide: Ford’s overall
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Ford Motor Company and Toyota Case Work Ch. 3 Step 1. Structure the audit problem: In the first step‚ we consider the relevant parties involved; identify the alternatives‚ risks and uncertainties; how to evaluate them and how to structure the problem. The parties are the Ford Motor Company‚ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and lastly the Audit Committee. The problem that may arise is that Ford Motor company has PricewaterhouseCoopers audit and prepare essentially all of the company’s financials for
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What is the Great Awakening and what happened? What is the Enlightenment and what happened? In the 1730’s and 1740’s‚ a religious movement called the Great Awakening swept through the colonies. Unlike the Great Awakening‚ which stressed religious emotion‚ the Enlightenment emphasized reason and science as the paths to knowledge. In the 1700’s‚ many colonists feared they had lost the religious passion that had driven their ancestors to found the colonies. The Great Awakening revolved around religion
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Utilitarian Analysis The Case of the Ford Pinto The Ford Pinto first rolled off the Ford Motor Co. production lines in 1971 and stayed in production in its original state until 1978. The vehicle engineers were tasked to develop the vehicle and put it into production within 25 months‚ which was nearly half the time in which the average new vehicle is put into production. The Ford engineers were aware that rear-end impact safety tests were pretty standard at the time‚ but they were not required
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SCMA Ford Motor Company Case Study Contents Executive Summary 2 Issue identification with Root Cause Analysis 3 Understanding Forecasts with the new Ford 2000 Projects 3 Ford’s current supplier base is excessive 4 Purchasing structure within the Ford organization 4 Environmental Factors 5 Alternatives 6 Keep its existing supply chain 6 Recommendation 6 Create a vertically integrated supply chain based on Dell’s model 6 Create a website for direct purchases 7 A pull system should be implemented
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Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 18 (2005) 225–237 www.elsevier.com/locate/jlp Current status and expected future trends in dust explosion research R.K. Eckhoff* Department of Physics and Technology‚ University of Bergen‚ Allegaten 55‚ N-5007 Bergen‚ Norway ¨ Øresund Safety Advisers AB‚ Box 82‚ SE-20120 Malino‚ Sweden Abstract In spite of extensive research and development for more than 100 years to prevent and mitigate dust explosions in the process industries‚ this hazard
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THE FORD PINTO CASE: THE VALUATION OF LIFE AS IT APPLIES TO THE NEGLIGENCE-EFFICIENCY ARGUMENT Christopher Leggett Law & Valuation Professor Palmiter Spring‚ 1999 Abstract Text of Paper -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract The cases involving the explosion of Ford Pinto’s due to a defective fuel system design led to the debate of many issues‚ most centering around the use by Ford of a cost-benefit analysis and the
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