Traveler Import Cars Case 1. What problems existed at Traveler Import Cars? What are the symptoms? Randy and Beryl‚ a married couple‚ created Traveler Import Cars‚ a car dealership that begin its operation by selling a brand of Japanese cars. Randy worked for many years in the car dealerships as a partner of Capital Imports‚ a car dealership that sells expensive European automobiles. Beryl was an MBA graduate with professional experience on car dealership as a consultant. Together they
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In the first 7 chapters of Car Guys vs Bean Counters‚ it is easy to see why the production line and accounting/financing have disagreements regarding the primary purpose of the company. A considerably large reason for General Motors downfall seems to be the focus they had on the numbers they had to arrive at to generate a large profit. All GM was aiming to do was to do anything to maximize profits without a focus on the quality of the product. The issue of not keeping themselves grounded arose from
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women-only train car system. It has been hot issue since 1992 in Korea and is practiced by many other countries such as Japan‚ India‚
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second hand car. - The price may be determined by the kilometers travelled by the car. - The price may be affected if the car was in an accident (ie. Physical condition). - The price could be lowered if the car is old. - The price may be affected if a competitor is selling the same second
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manufacturers only produce about 25% of the cars manufactured in the world. Since 1980s‚ there has been increased competition from Japanese and German manufacturers. Along with other American companies‚ General Motors has recognized this problem and took the challenge and owed to compete with Japanese small car manufacturers. General Motors spun off a separate car manufacturing unit‚ fully independent entity and named Saturn. This case review focuses on the Saturn Cars‚ its marketing strategy‚ pros & cons
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the “Used Car” negotiation? Why or why not? This negotiation was different because in this negotiation the best result for both parties was working together in order to build a long term business relationship. The used car negotiation was a negotiation revolved around a singular item and most likely both the buyer and the seller would never meet again because it was a one time deal. Also I believe that both distributive and integrative tactics were useful in this negotiation. In the used car negotiation
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Case: Car Financing in China 1. Suggest reasons for a company to enter the Chinese market for auto financing. • Statistically proven‚ the Chinese market has exploded in the past couple days. • It may be inferred that since Chinese market is used to deal with other huge companies that they also will be knowledgeable/experienced of how to get the auto financing running. • It would be easy to integrate because they already have numerous network partners to leverage‚ such as Isuzu‚ Suzuki
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Task A. CLASS DIAGRAM B. Use Case Event | Trigger | Source | Use Case | Response | Destination | Request for car rental | Reservation call | Customer | Reserve vehicle | Vehicle availability status | Passengers | Pickup vehicle | Pickup date | Customer | Pickup vehicle | Car rental system update | Staff | Vehicle return | Due date for rental | Customer | Vehicle return | Car rental system update | Staff | Generate Bill | Vehicle Return | Operator | Bill | Update System |
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Analysing alternative methods How would enterprise rent-a-car meet their customers’ future expectations? 1. Enterprise can use independent third party to do customer survey‚ in order to obtain accurate feedback from their customers that reflect their expectations about the future service offered by enterprise. Some of advantages and disadvantages of the first alternative method are illustrated below: Advantages Disadvantages • Knowing weaknesses would be a lot faster and easier. • Extra salary
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Case Study 19-1 titled “Organizational and Cultural Change for Providing Safe Patient Care”‚ on page 382 through 383‚ is about a Department of Medicine (DoM) in an urban academic medical center where in the past 2 years there has been cases where patients had needlessly suffered serious harm. Even though the cases were far and in betweeen‚ and most of the employees were comfortable with the status quo however‚ “the chairperson’s view of patient care safety meant that there was no place for such incidents
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