Coeus’s analysis of Harvard Business School’s case study of Jack Welch’s two-decade leadership at GE. During his tenure Welch completely transformed the corporate culture of GE from an inefficient bureaucratic organization to a lean and efficient organization. At his departure from GE in 2001‚ the firm had been named Fortune’s “ Most Admired Company” three years in a row. Our analysis will discuss the steps that Welch undertook to complete this transformation. Welsh vision for GE when
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GE Among the Top 10 industrial corporation 1980 Jack Welsch CEO Simplified and decentralized corporate structure 54 business corporation reduced to 13 Layers of management and corporate planning department were eliminated Autonomous divisions New driver: empowerment and customer focus Work-Out program Non-US operations Integrated organizational model Direct-connect (detail) Local managers responsible only for unique local issues Looking for opportunities to leverage local strengths
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The GE Energy Management Initiative (A) By taking the position as Raj Bhatt‚ Business Development manager of GE Canada‚ I am comfortable and confident that energy efficiency is an attractive industry and business opportunity. What makes Raj Bhatt believe that the Energy Efficiency projects will be successful in Canada is that the project helps not only the ESCo‚ which conducts the performance-based contracting‚ but also the customers‚ who are more aware of the benefits of Energy Efficiency project
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Introduction Jeffery R. Immelt became the Chairman of General Electric (GE) in 7th September 2011‚ replacing his famous predecessor‚ Jack Welch. The 33 year old GE veteran had acquired his MBA from Harvard Business School the same year he joined General Electric in 1982. He climbed the corporate ladder deliberately from being a senior position in the late 1980s‚ to becoming a CEO. Jeffrey Immelt is said to carry a democratic style of leadership as many other leaders have the same style‚ carried
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Analysis A. Problem Statement GE’s financial health and growth rates are no longer climbing at exponential rates due to the stark differences and change of leadership‚ goals and strategies between Welch and Immelt‚ specifically as their leadership translates to their subordinates. B. Identification of Problem Causes According to the Path-Goal Theory of Leadership‚ Welch displays the characteristics of participative and directive leadership. His strengths are in his clear vision
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‚ Case #1: the turbine generator industry The default prediction that we’d make using economic theory (or common sense) in the absence of game theory is that‚ in the turbine generator case‚ General Electric should have undercut Westinghouse because the former has lower costs. But we start to see why it didn ’t when we introduce capacity constraints into the Bertrand model. Capacity constraints can stem from two things: decreasing returns to scale‚ or demand-uncertainties that create expected
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GE’s Two Decade Transformation Case Analysis 1. How difficult a challenge did Welch face in 1981? How effectively did he take charge? In 1981‚ Jack Welch became the CEO of GE‚ following on the heels of a well-respected leader whom the industry heralded as “CEO of the year” several years in a row. Welch needed to find a strategy for GE to succeed in this economy to avoid being the CEO that broke what Reg Jones had built. In fact‚ when Reg announced his retirement‚ The Wall Street Journal wrote
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competition from other countries such as Japan. At the time‚ GE was highly structured‚ with numerous management layers and several macro businesses. The company followed very orthodox practices‚ with 43 different strategic plans across numerous sectors. That all changed under Welch’s leadership‚ who implemented a major overhaul and created a unified strategy and vision for the entire organization. Welch’s revitalization initiatives encompassed significant strategic‚ structural and human resource
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Question 1: In what ways has Jeff Immelt redirected the strategy of GE? In 2001‚ shortly after Jeff Immelt became the CEO of GE‚ a series of events changed and impacted the corporate landscape. The immediate challenges that he faced included 9/11‚ and a subsequent series of high profile corporate scandals (Enron‚ WorldCom). In 2008‚ the financial crisis hit and had a severe impact on GE’s primary growth source‚ GE Capital causing it to accumulate bad debts and asset write-downs. These events caused
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been no doubts that Immelt has been successful in fostering innovation by challenging the usual management-discipline business model that Jack Welch had created. From my analysis‚ I would like to analyze 2 major transformations that Immelt had implemented; Heavy acquisitions and Imagination Breakthrough. Although he brought remarkable achievements to GE through the above-mentioned transformations using his innovative management style‚ there are reasons why I did not choose Immelt as my role model.
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