GE’S TWO DECADE TRANSFORMATION: JACK WELCH’S LEADERSHIP 1. How difficult a challenge did Welch face in 1981? How effectively did he take charge? When Reg Jones retired and Jack Welch became GE’s CEO in 1981‚ the country was facing a major recession‚ with high inflation and unemployment rates‚ reminiscent of those 50 years earlier during the Great Depression. Thousands of businesses were failing‚ not only affected by the national economic conditions but also
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Dana Tripp Tanglewood Stores - Case One – Week 2 HR594 Strategic Staffing‚ January 2011 Keller Graduate School of Management Professor Sheri Bias January 3‚ 2011 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY To: Donald Penchiala‚ Director of Staffing Services Marilyn Anchley‚ Vice President of Human Resources RE: Tanglewood Retail Store – Case #1 Date: January 3‚ 2010 In this report will be doing a Strategic Staffing Analysis that will focus on the key requirements about acquisition‚ deployment‚ and
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A case study on the luxury watch market The following case study is largely focused upon Prestige luxury watches but in order to give a context to the activities of this business also presents some background information on the luxury watch market and some information about a number of other brands operating in this market. A number of positioning matrices are included in the Appendix to aid understanding of the competitive
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Chapter 4: Mini Case 1: Smith‚ Smith‚ Smith‚ and Smith is a regional accounting firm that is putting up a new headquarters building. The building will have a backbone network that connects eight LANs (two on each floor). The company is very concerned with network errors. What advice would you give regarding the design of the building and network cable planning that would help reduce network errors? I have to make some assumptions regarding the network design for this new building. Since they
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McDonald’s Case Study - Mayuresh Deodhar Background: McDonald’s are one of the biggest corporations in the fast food industry. Ray Kroc‚ founder and first CEO of McDonald’s Corporation‚ opened the first store in Del Plaines‚ Illinois in 1955. From the beginning‚ his aim was to build an innovative supply chain by focusing strictly on securing consistent supply‚ excellent quality and volume pricing. Kroc terminated those suppliers that could not consistently provide high quality and dedicated
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Case #1: Movies Why aren’t you going to the movies? No good movies Too expensive Bad experience Other ways to see movies Better things to do for the $ Better experience at home What would make you go back to the movies? Lower ticket price Food/beer Group discount Cheaper Loyalty/Reward Older movies Marketing (limited) Better location Better seats Better technology Better plots/TV Content Hit Books make movies from those No Ads Better Customer Service Tell people to be quiet if they are loud
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CASE BACKGROUND David had been working as a consultant with ABC Consulting Sdn. Bhd for 3 years. The firm specialized in businesses turnarounds and reviving distress businesses in the past decades. At this month’s meeting‚ David’s boss‚ Robert Stanley had voiced out his concerns about the amount of time taken to resolve their cases. He mentioned that although their overall business is considered profitable‚ but the firm’s cash inflow had become irregular considering the nature of their business
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Case 1 question QUESTIONS: 1. In what ways are Hazel’s customers most likely to judge the quality of her lawn care services? 2. hazel is the operation manager of her business. Among her responsibilities are forecasting‚ inventory management‚ scheduling‚ quality assurance‚ and maintenance. a. What kinds of things would likely require forecasts? b. What inventory items does Hazel probably have? Name one inventory decision she has to make periodically. c. What scheduling must she do? What things
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priority is “making customers happy”. Product Maturity McDonald’s in is the mature stage of their product life cycle. All the competitors are known and established. This means that they go for more of a cost structure to have a cheap product while still maintaining the MacDonald’s quality. Because the franchise maintains the same product line they can focus on cutting costs. Product Development Process MacDonald’s uses product development teams to gather many minds as a resource for ideas
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Case Study 3.1 Zumba: A dance phenomenon is going global 1. Which of the internationalization models presented in this chapter best fits the internationalization of Zumba? 1. The network approach model best describes the internationalization of Zumba. The key feature of the model is that the firm itself cannot succeed on its own‚ it is dependent on resources controlled by others. Similarly to the Zumba case study‚ they profit from their instructors‚ academy‚ instructors courses‚ monthly
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