NIKE CASE STUDY ANALYSIS Q: What characteristics about Nike contributed to their troubles with i2 becoming nothing more than a speed bump? 1. i2’s predictive demand application and its supply chain planner used different business rules and stored data in different formats‚ making it difficult to integrate the two applications. The i2 software needed to be so heavily customized to operate with Nike’s legacy systems that it took as much as a minute for a single entry to be recorded
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CASE STUDY: A multi-national company/TNC - NIKE Nike trainers are sold and worn throughout the world. Nike is a typical transnational corporation (TNC). Its headquarters are in the USA‚ where all the major decisions and research take place‚ yet its sports shoes are manufactured in many countries around the world. Like many TNCs‚ Nike subcontracts or uses independently owned factories in different countries to produce its trainers. Often this takes place in less economically developed countries
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shares of Nike‚ Inc. for her mutual fund management firm. In the mid of 2001‚ Nike arranges for an analyst meeting to disclose its Fiscal year results and also to discuss on renewing its strategies to boost its sales growth‚ profits and market share which were all declining. To cope from the situation it decides to develop athletic shoes in the mid-price segment‚ enhance revenues from its apparel line and also commits to control its expenditure. When Ford realizes that the market analysis had mixed
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strategic planning is dynamic and that strategy-making involves a complex pattern of actions and reactions. It is partially planned and partially unplanned. Mintzberg’s 5 Ps for Strategy would have helped nike in the following ways: • Plan • Ploy • Pattern • Position • Perspective. Plan Nike planed to revolutionise their demand and supply chain management system with a $400 million 18month prodject‚ by replacing the old supply chain system with a new system. They intended a course of action
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in the stocks of Nike for the fund that she manages. • Ford should base her decision on data on the company which were disclosed in the 2001 fiscal reports. While Nike management addressed several issues that are causing the decrease in market sales and prices of stocks‚ management presented its plans to improve and perform better. • Third party sources also gave their opinions on whether the stock was a sound investment. WACC CALCULATION: Cost of Capital Calculations: Nike Inc Cohen calculated
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Burberry Analysis of the competitive environment The aim of this essay is to provide brief and structured analysis of the competitive environment of a Burberry. RENATA GECAN MILEK 19.11.2012 Professional MBA Business Core 2012-2014 Competitive Analysis and Strategy Business Core Class 3 1. Introduction The aim of this essay is to provide brief and structured analysis of the competitive environment of a Burberry. In the first part I will briefly present luxury goods sector‚ trends‚
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RSS Case Study: E-recruitment gets Nike on track Posted by HR Zone in Strategies on Thu‚ 09/12/2004 - 16:54 0 inShare The Nike employer brand is extremely powerful in attracting potential talent to the business making the process of handling applications and supporting the resourcing process effectively and efficiently critical to business success; implementing e-recruitment was identified as the way to solve this businesses hiring problems. The issue Nike currently receives around
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"Nike is criticized for using sweatshops in countries like Indonesia and Mexico. The company has been subject to much critical coverage of the often poor working conditions and the exploitativeness of the cheap overseas labor." answers.com 1. Should Nike be held responsible for working conditions in foreign factories that it does not own‚ but where sub-contractors make product for Nike? Yes‚ but I do not believe that the firm is 100% responsible since it is the sub-contractors who operate
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Nike transform into a market-oriented company after 1998. Prior to 1998 Nike gained market share based off of Nike name branding. Nike was not a company that looked towards the future‚ they failed recognized the wants and needs of their customer base and was totally insentive to the ethical issues of exploiting oversea workers. Nike created a new management team to in reinvent Nike. The company now uses its capabilities and matches them to their customer’s value. It appears the customers are the
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Political Analysis With the increased monitoring and enforcement of labour practices; Nike being in the public spotlight and subject to negative publicity on their subcontracted factories is forced to readjust the working conditions of their cross ocean factory workers to abide with proper regulations. This has caused Nike to modify their factory standards and employee working conditions by; limiting the maximum hours worked a week‚ implementing proper ventilation systems to filter out toxic fumes
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