Case Write-Up: LEGO Group-An Outsourcing Journey Q1 LEGO’s main expectations and learnings from the relationship with Flextronics LEGO’s main expectation was to optimize its global supply chain by saving cost and reducing production complexity from the cooperation with Flextronics. However‚ the contract between those two lasted for only 3 years. In the end‚ LEGO re-took control of plants in Czech Republic‚ Hungary and opened a new site in Mexico Lessens LEGO received from this unsuccessful
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Ltd.‚ a company that had benefited from the funds embezzled from a well-known bank‚ to stop two suspects from being arrested. Of the internal problems facing the ACA is the case of allegedly unjustified dismissal of a former fraud investigator. Formerly employed as director of investigations at the ACA‚ this fraud investigator was dismissed in June 2004. The director of the ACA was accused of conspiracy as there were allegations that he exercised pressure on a police officer to unjustly incriminate
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1. Recap the Facts I learned from Uli’s slideshow LEGO made action figures in yellow to allow children to allow their imaginations to think of the figures as any color. The diversity of the toys moves into the hiring process to equalize the diversity in the company. I have noticed in most of our slideshows there is a certain percentage of women in executive teams. LEGO has one woman in the executive team. This was surprising because I stereotype women as caregivers for children and would know more
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INTRODUCTION The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea mega thrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday‚ December 26‚ 2004‚ with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra‚ Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake.[3][4] The resulting tsunami is given various names‚ including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami‚ Asian Tsunami‚ Indonesian Tsunami. CAUSES The earthquake was caused by subduction and triggered a series of devastating
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examples of successes and/or challenges. Q4. What is needed to improve cross-cultural management within MEC? CASE TWO LEGO What are LEGO’s values and corporate identity? How did these develop over time (prior to LEGO Media Int’l)? How did Lego’s organizational structures & policies permit int’l alignment AND explicitly reflect the company’s belief in equifinality? How did LEGO actively reduce barriers to communication? Give examples of some of their internal communication practices & indicate
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1. What has led the LEGO group to the edge of bankruptcy? External threats (macro PEST‚ micro Porter’s 5 forces) giant conglomerates dominating industry (risk of being taken over) p.2 competing rising costs while competitors outsource p.2 pressure from big retail customers with power? e.g. Walmart‚ Target p.2 negative industry trends in toy industry p.1 1) fad toys are rising and product life cycles declining. threat of shortening/declining life cycle despite rise of fad toys
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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION FIJI SEVENTH FORM EXAMINATION – 2004 EXAMINER’S REPORT PHYSICS GENERAL COMMENTS PAPER I The format for 2004 FSF Physics Examination paper has been similar to 2003 . The examination paper on the whole had tested knowledge and concepts expected to be learned by seventh form physics students in Fiji‚ particularly : - familiarity with basic concepts ; - problem solving techniques ; - knowledge of practical situations encountered during practical lessons
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First Analysis - Obama’s 2004 DNC Cpeech This is the first entry in this site looking at great speeches in history‚ in movies‚ in business – wherever they can be found. Suggest some speeches‚ and if they’re great I’ll analyse them. The purpose of this blog is to try and give you some insight into why speeches work and how you can craft a speech that will win the argument‚ win the business‚ or maybe even win the heart of a loved one. In each case I’ll give some history to place the speech into context
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Lego targets parents‚ offering an alternative to television! From the first glance‚ it is immediately noticeable that this controversial advertisement is clearly very different from the traditional advertisements one would expect from Lego. It definitely has the parents as the target audience and is focusing on the parent’s fear of bad influences on their children. When one considers who the preferred‚ negotiated and oppositional readers would be as defined by Stuart Hall (Hall et al. 1980)
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much more than anyone thought possible. The movie is telling us something‚ something that we will treasure a lifetime. There are a lot of movies nowadays that will just leave us stunned and give us some laughters‚ but without lesson. Facing the giants is not like those movies. First‚ the title itself. The title is really encouraging that we have to face the giants. And what are these giants? Maybe to some it is fear‚ pain‚ peer pressure‚ family and all sorts of giants that make us
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