BREAKTHROUGHS : THE EVO PROJECT GE BUSINESSES JACK WELCH PROCESS ORIENTED Effective operations management Timely acquisitions and clever deal making Financially based strategies Efficiency driven JEFF IMMELT MARKETING ORIENTED Market value of technological advancements Organic growth – given top priority Technology leadership Commercial excellence Global expansion Marketing driven Long term‚ research- based approach to his tasks Immelt is transforming GE from a process and acquisition
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CASE 11: General Electric Healthcare‚ 2006 1. Was buying Amersham a good idea? Why or why not? We support the idea that GE Healthcare‚ which is one of the biggest conglomerates globally‚ took the right step in acquiring the business Amersham in order to expand the business and restructure its core business into becoming a global standardized business aiming to provide products that answers the needs of consumers in the market today. The following
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As is known to all‚ most successful medical equipment manufacturing companies like GE Healthcare satisfy customers ’ need as possible as they can and they are still on the way to improve their supply chains to attract more customers and make themselves more competitive. From this‚ we can see that customer value which can be defined as "the customer ’s overall assessment of the utility of a product based on perceptions of what is received and what is given" (Zeithaml‚ 1988‚ p. 14) plays a very important
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facing Immelt assuming the CEO role in 2001? What imperatives where there to change? What incentives to maintain the past? 2. What do you think of the broad objectives Immelt has set for GE? Can a giant global Conglomerate hope to outperform the overall market growth? Can size and diversity be made an asset rather than a liability? 3. What is your evaluation of the growth strategy (a strategy for a giant global conglomerate with a portfolio of mature industrial businesses) Immelt has articulated
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GE Energy and GE Healthcare Case Study 1. What are the business benefits of using information technology to build strategic customer relationships for GE Energy and GE Healthcare? What are the business benefits for their customers? Technology is no longer an afterthought in forming business strategy‚ but the actual cause and driver. Networking and data storage & analysis technologies enabled GE to gain a competitive advantage by providing unique products and services to their customers. What
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public markets‚ big has rarely appeared less beautiful.1 op yo Through the 1990s and 2000s‚ large diversified firms‚ often called conglomerates‚ largely fell out of favor with investors. Arguments against conglomerates ranged from complexity in management to the difficulties that analysts and investors had in understanding their operations. More recently‚ conglomerates have regained some respect. As the largest of the U.S. diversified multinational firms‚ General Electric Company (GE)‚ with over 300
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prepared for the December 2006 meeting with GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt‚ Pierre Comte faced some difficult decisions. Only eight months into his job as chief marketing officer (CMO) of GE’s Transportation business‚ Comte would be presenting Transportation’s recommendations on some of the most visible growth initiatives in its locomotive business—projects that had been designated “Imagination Breakthroughs.” IBs‚ as they were called within GE‚ were new projects with the potential to generate $100 million
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Brief Contents Objective: Lambin (2000) states that ’ marketing is a business philosophy and an action-oriented process which is valid for every organization in contact with its constituency of users. ’ ’ He make the distinction between marketing as a ’system of thought ’ ’ (or strategic marketing) and as an ’active process ’ ’ (or operational marketing). (Lambin‚ J-J.‚ (2000)‚ Market-Driven Management: Strategic and operational Marketing‚ Macmillan). With reference to academic literature
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Introduction: Through the Leadership Center‚ GE spends approximately $ 1 billion world-wide every year on training and educating its people. The Center even went further in leadership and learning by its epicenter at Crotonville‚ located in Ossining‚ New York. Attracting a wide range of students from all levels‚ customer service‚ employees‚ top executives‚ and highest-performing executives‚ the center is redefining career events and provides courses that cover a broad range such as hiring‚ team building
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Running Head: BROAD ENVIRONMENT Knowing the Unknown about the Broad Environment University of Tampa MGT 431 Practical Strategic Assessment Dr. George Bud Wynn June 09‚ 2009 Abstract In “Foundations in Strategic Management”‚ pages 21 to 27‚ author Harrison discusses the influence that the external environment has on a particular company’s operations and how its managers can adapt to environmental uncertainties to sustain their competitive advantages. Harrison also points out why it is
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