customers could get cars of any color as long as it was black‚ while Tata Motors went to customers before designing Ace and asked them about the price and features that they wanted. Compare and contrast between these two approaches? 1. Both the cases are related to Automobile industries. Mr. Ford is talking about passenger cars & tata is talking about commercial vehicles. Main points can be argued as follows. Ford Cars | Tata Ace | Passenger Vehicles | SCV | Already made a huge market &
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1.0 Introduction The Ford Motor Company finds itself in a dynamic business environment where new technologies and practices offer the potential to alter in a significant way the landscape in which it operates. Henry Ford was in his time an innovator in offering "cars for the masses". He introduced to the car industry methods and systems innovative in their day. Ford needs once again to forge new paths to ensure future competitive advantage. Executives at Ford have been considering the "Direct Model"
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Fiat Chrysler Q2 Earnings Group Performance: FCA has reported a positive overall financial performance for the second quarter of 2015. It earned a net profit of € 333 million that is up 69 % from Q2 2014 net profit of € 197 million. Net revenue for the group increased by 25 % from € 23.3 billion to € 29.2 billion while there was a slight reduction in net industrial debt which now stands at € 8.0 billion. The outstanding improvement in net profit and EBIT was led by a strong improvement in NAFTA
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TATA MOTORS CASE Tata Motors in Singhur case talks about the controversy related to Land acquisition by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya for proposed Nano factory in West Bengal. The reason for choosing West Bengal as the location was that it was believed as the most investor friendly state with faith in investment climate and government of Bengal. However‚ soon after the announcement of the Nano Project‚ the protest led by opposition leader Mamta Banerjee began as it was viewed as forcible
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INDUSTRY: BRIEF History Tata Sky is set to revolutionize television viewing in India through its superior digital quality picture and sound. The service aims to empower the Indian viewer with Choice‚ Control and Convenience through its wide array of programming choices and interactive features. Tata Sky offers viewers a variety of channels ranging from entertainment‚ sports‚ movies and music to news and documentaries in DVD quality picture and CD quality sound. Tata Sky has established an extensive
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Tata Group Vishal Patel Saint Leo University Organizational Behaviour MBA 530 Craig S. Cleveland December 17‚ 2010 Tata Group Tata group of companies‚ it is said that there is Tata in every Indian’s life directly or indirectly. Tata group of companies is India’s largest conglomerate. Tata group is made up of 90 operating companies in seven different industries which makes it India’s largest conglomerate. Tata group was founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868. The founder of the Tata
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Corporate Social Responsibility – Issues and Challenges in India with a case study of TATA GROUP Nilesh R. Berad nileshb_iom@bkc.met.edu MET Institute of Management‚ Nasik Introduction: In India companies like TATA and Birla are practicing the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for decades‚ long before CSR become a popular basis. In spite of having such good glorious examples; In India CSR is in a very much budding stage. A lack of understanding‚ inadequately trained personnel‚ coverage‚
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POSITIONING IS INEVITABLE –A CASE STUDY OF TATA NANO Natasha Saqib Assistant Professor Department of Management Studies‚ University of Kashmir‚ South Campus Email –natalie81985@gmail.com Correspondence Address Natasha Saqib C/O Jamsheed Saqib United India Insurance Co. Ltd Divisional Office Regal Chowk Srinagar‚ Jammu & Kasmir Pincode No 190001 POSITIONING IS INEVITABLE –A CASE STUDY OF TATA NANO Abstract The forces of globalization and technological advancement have rendered
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House of Tata : Acquiring a Global Footprint. In order for Tata Group to implement acquisition and/or restructuring strategies‚ it would be helpful to know existing scope of the group operating company structure‚ especially‚ profitability and financing activities. The following table shows the detail information of Tata group company structure. Additionally‚ the financing and profitability of each operating company under Tata group in year 2007 (FY07). [pic] • The following table shows
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India editor Hormazd Sorabjee. "There was a bit of overconfidence at the start and not much marketing push from the company. The hype fizzled out even before Tata Motors could effectively roll out sizeable (number of) cars on the road." A person close to the company said‚ "Somehow it got slotted as a Rs 1-lakh car or a cheap car. Tata Motors did not intend to position it like that‚ but they did not do enough to manage perceptions." Making too much of the price tag was a mistake‚ said Zia Patel‚ principal
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