Armco History and Performance Measures Armco‚ Inc. produced stainless‚ electrical‚ carbon steels and steel products. Armco‚ Inc.‚ along with the help of other companies Armco‚ “produced coated‚ high strength and low-carbon flat rolled steel and oil field machinery and equipment” (Merchant & Van der Stede‚ 2012). In 1990‚ Armco was the sixth largest steel manufacturer in the United States. Armco’s Midwestern Steel division generated $550 million dollars in sales in 1990. Within Armco‚ the Kansas
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Case 25-2: Armco Inc.: Midwestern Steel Division* Note: This case is unchanged from the Twelfth Edition. Approach The Armco case was designed to illustrate a performance measurement system with measures cascading from strategic priorities down to the lowest organization levels. The system is not tightly linked with incentive compensation‚ although that is being discussed. Still‚ the focus on measured results promises to change managerial behaviors significantly. The case is particularly interesting
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Case 1‚ Armco Inc. – Midwestern Steel Division Armco Inc is a steel manufacturer that used to be the sixth largest in its industry in United States in 1990. The Kansas City Works within its Midwestern Steel Division was hit by the decline in the business in the US steel industry. The firm produces grinding media and carbon wire rod. The first one has been successful in the industry with its great durability compared to the competitors. Carbon wire rods on the other hand were non profitable and covered
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Case assignment Armco‚ Inc.: Midwestern Steel Division Case Analysis What was wrong with the Midwestern Steel Division’s old system? Within the division‚ The Kansas City Works was by far the largest entity. The manufacturing areas of the Kansas City Works were divided into five responsibility centers. Each responsibility center was comprised of one or more cost centers. The managers and superiors were evaluated in terms of cost control and safety. The key cost performance measure was
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Case Study: Armco‚ Inc.: Midwestern Steel Division What do you think was the problem with the implementation of the new performance measurement system? In January 1991‚ Top management of the Kansas City Works of Armco’s Midwestern Steel division began implementing its new performance measurement system. It was designed to give better management focus on the things‚ which are most important. The new system included less data’s: it allows managers to focus on the 5-6 more important which cause
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Armco‚ Inc.: Midwestern Steel Division Case Background Armco‚ Inc was producer of stainless‚ electrical‚ carbon steels‚ and steel products from United States. It was the sixth largest steel manufacturer in the United States in 1990. Kansas City Works was by far the company’s largest entity in the Armco’s Midwestern Steel Division‚ contributing around $250M in sales from $550M of Armco’s steel division net sales in 1990. The Kansas City Works produced two primary products: grinding media and
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Questions to consider: 1. How would you characterize Steel Works’ products? What about Steel Works’ customers? 2. What does the coefficient of variation tell us? Can you determine the coefficient of variation for the product lines? 3. How much inventory has Steel Works been holding? How much should they have been holding? SPECIALTY PRODUCTS DIVISION Customer Characteristics Steel Works has a large number of customers for its specialty products - 130 customers for some 120 products. However
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is AK Steel. AK Steel was originally ARMCO and was founded in 1899. The company was formally renamed to AK Steel in 1993 when it was open publicly as a trade company. AK Steel produces‚ carbon‚ stainless steel‚ electrical steel‚ cold rolled‚ and aluminum coated stainless steel that is used in automobiles (AKSteel.com‚ 2015). Armco is best known for producing crash barriers that are used on the side of the roadways and racing tracks that have helped save countless lives. Some of AK Steels recent
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Terry Gilbert ENGL-102 November 6‚ 2008 The Midwestern Crime Wave All across the nation during the Great Depression people were jobless‚ homeless‚ and starving; nowhere was this truer than in the American Midwest. Not only did the farms and cities of the Midwest have to deal with the poor economic conditions but the Midwest’s main source of income‚ agriculture‚ was being ravaged by the natural phenomenon now called the Dust Bowl. On top of low crop prices and a lack of employment farmland
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Midwestern: Contemporary Art Case Study Negotiations March 20‚ 2012 Abstract Background The present paper reviews a case study as written by Lewicky‚ Saunders and Barry in the text Negotiations titled Midwestern::Contemporary Art‚ case number 6. Its focus is on a financial crisis that the museum is facing due to a donors failure to pay a five million dollar pledge. The donor was the museums previous president of the board of directors who had a falling out with the museum director
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