CASE 4: WindVest Motorcycle Products Down the Windy Road May 22‚ 2011 Case summary: WindVest is a small family business specialized in designing and manufacturing windshields for motorcycles. The company has experienced an annual growth of 10% and 1.5 million Dollars of sales. In order to overcome the local competition WindVest would like to improve the company’s efficiency trough the restructuring of their supply chain and finding suppliers that are located around their headquarter
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MAC II Dakota Office Products Q1) Why was Dakota’s existing pricing system inadequate for its current operating environment? The existing policies being followed by Dakota regarding Accounts receivables are a major issue‚ which is affecting its payment of working capital line of credit (@10%). Customer A pays its bill within 30 days‚ whereas B takes up 90 days or more. Dakota can achieve sufficient liquidity‚ if it tightens its credit policy. | | | | | 2) Develop an activity
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A product launch should be evaluated using a business case that is built around the future expected cash flows. However‚ from a portfolio perspective there are some factors that must be considered in forecasting the future expected cash flows. • Cannibalization As new products arrive‚ the revenue and costs involved should not be looked at in isolation. There can be ripple effects across the business where a new product cannibalizes sales from existing products. For example‚ the launch of a new
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• The products they produce • Who their customers are • Where their customers are located Once the above considerations has been taken‚ a manager can then look at the advantages and disadvantages to the different types of departmentalization. Two types of departmentalization are product and geography. Product departmentalization is when a company is organized by specific products. Take a look at 3M Corp; they make both consumer and industrial products. All of 3M Crops products operate
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School of Business and Management Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan Case Analysis No. 1 The Vice President‚ the Product Manager and the Misunderstanding Alma Frances R. Hortelano‚ MBA‚ DCM Dynamics of Management - MBA 111B Submitted by: Ian Rodel G. Nercuit CASE # 1: The Vice President‚ the Product Manager‚ and the Misunderstanding I. Viewpoint Human Resource II. Statement of the Problem It is apparent that managerial roles were not properly exercised by each
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running at a high speed. But the general public is surprised to find that there are more and more fake and inferior products seriously hampering the expansion of our market economy. Consumers have to be very careful in purchasing goods and services they need; otherwise they will fall into the traps set by the illegal manufacturers. There is no doubt that fake and inferior products are extremely harmful. In the first place‚ they endanger people’s health‚ giving rise to a lot of injury accidents
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review and research strategies on product-service systems P.P. Wang*‚ X.G. Ming‚ D. Li‚ F.B. Kong‚ L. Wang and Z.Y. Wu School of Mechanical Engineering‚ Shanghai Jiao Tong University‚ Shanghai‚ PR China (Received 17 May 2010; final version received 12 October 2010) As present trends in economic and population growth continue‚ the natural environment is increasingly being stressed. More and more researchers‚ institutes and programmes have paid attention to product-service systems (PSSes) in the
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Marketing Mix: Product 9-10 INTRODUCTION *EXE*CUTIVE SUMMARY This report contains about marketing plan of the Bisleri product. It is all about the Indian bottled water industry growth and the projected expansion of the sector in India supported on the facts collected from secondary data: official web sites‚ articles etc. After analysis of the information which we collected from different sources we have suggested a plan for next year which may increase the performance of the product and market
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Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY i PRODUCT 1 The new product process 1 1.1 Stages in the new-product process 1 New product strategy development 2 Objectives of the stage 2 Identify Markets and Strategic Roles 2 Cross-functional teams 2 Idea generation 3 Customer Suggestions 3 Employee and Co-worker Suggestions 3 Research and Development Breakthroughs 4 Competitive Products 4 Screening and evaluation 5 Internal Approach 5 External Approach
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Unsuccessful product launches: Product and brand failures occur on an ongoing basis to varying degrees within most product-based organizations. This is the negative aspect of the development and marketing process. In most cases‚ this “failure rate” syndrome ends up being a numbers game. There must be some ratio of successful products to each one that ends up being a failure. When this does not happen‚ the organization is likely to fail‚ or at least experience financial difficulties that prohibit
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