Executive Shirt Company‚ Inc HBR Case Study Existing Business • Executive Shirt Company (ESC) provides high-quality‚ competitively-priced men’s dress shirts • With the existing production system‚ custom-made shirts demand at least 75% higher price compared to off-the-shelf shirts • Customers are required to wait 6 weeks or longer to receive custom-sized shirts Expansion of Business • General Manager Dwight Collier decided to expand company’s product line • Several retailers expressed enthusiasm
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Chapter VIII: Operations Plant and Facilities One of the most important things in putting up a business is the location‚ considering that it should be highly accessible and convenient to the customers‚ as well as to the suppliers. An inconvenient location might cause a fall back and might lead to business insolvency. Thus‚ location of the business must also be reached through the most possible transportation that is available to the customers. Considering the following‚ Graceland
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SEPTEMBER 2008 (TOTAL WORDS:) PRESENTED BY: REGISTRATION NO. CONTENTS PAGE PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND OVERALL RESEARCH APPROACH REASONS FOR CHOOSING THE TOPIC AND COMPANY There have been a few factors which helped me in the selection of the topic and company which I have discussed below: • INTEREST: Analyzing the financial situation of an organization is interesting and full of learning activity. Not only for this reason but I also wanted to
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these competitive priorities are: 1- Cost importance- Corporations and manufacturers are concerned with how much certain processes will cost because this can make or break the differentiator factor with the competition. Manufacturing cost-related categories include (direct) production costs‚ productivity‚ capacity utilization‚ and inventory reduction (Ward‚ 1998). 2- Quality importance. Engineering‚ marketing‚ and manufacturing functions have often been portrayed as possessing different definitions
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production capacity of the organization An organization can achieve the above-mentioned objective by ensuring the following: * Better training of the workers and supervisors. * Creating awareness about of health hazard and safety standards * Optimum utilization of workforce and equipment * Encouraging empowerment and reducing administrative and other indirect work Factors affecting Facility Layout Facility layout designing and implementation is influenced by various factors. These
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earth. While there are several ways in which humans are responsible for the disturbance of ecological balance on earth‚ for example through chemicals released into the atmosphere through manufacturing and driving‚ resource availability and climatic factors‚ this report focuses on the major issue at hand which happens to be the rapid growth of population. Although it can be argued that population growth is healthy for many countries and the development of their nation‚ there are adverse consequences
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Atlantic Corp – case study | | | | Question 1: Is the acquisition of Royal’s Linerboard mill and box plants a sound strategic move? Yes. Atlantic corporation intends to increase its linerboard capacity‚ as it is a net buyer of linerboard. This acquisition of Royal by Atlantic Corporation would be a horizontal integration‚ which occurs when both the firm being taken over and the firm taking over are in the same industry and in the same stage of production. The linerboard industry
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Internet-generated new business models GENERAL SITUATION OF IT SECTOR IN TURKEY In Turkey‚ "e-transformation Turkey Project" launched in 2003. Success indicators which are targeted by e-transformation project to access to information society are; * Total factor productivity growth * High-tech and / or the production of high value added products and exports share in total GSHM * Investments in information and communication technologies * Investment in the share allocated to R & D‚ * Information
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in the region had been valued at up to $300 per ton of capacity on an enterprise value basis. The Asian crisis that began in 1997 changed the situation dramatically and gave the international players the opportunity they were waiting for. By 1999 the cement industry had emerged six major international competitors: Holderbank‚ Lafarge‚ CEMEX‚ Heidelberger‚ Italcementi‚ and Blue Circle. These six majors owned 500 million tons of capacity‚ representing slightly over one-quarter of the world total
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Detailed in the Indalex Ltd. case analysis‚ current production is stretched to the limit‚ creating a capacity constraint to meet future forecasted demand; hindering the firms objective of a real growth rate of ten percent annually. The issue of deciding on a capacity expansion plan‚ given uncertainty about near term economic projections was presented. Indalex concentrates on a competitive priority of service quality‚ where flexibility and quality are more of a priority than price. This is described
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