TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 1994 Core-Competencies The core competence of Toyota Motor Corporation is its ability to produce automobiles of great quality at best prices‚ thereby providing a value for money to the customers. This core competence of quality can be attributed to its innovative production practices. The quality aspect of Toyota’s products have revolutionized the automobiles in the past and almost all the automobile companies had to try and better the quality of their products. It is a
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Costco Costco Wholesale Corporation is the largest wholesale club operator in the United States. Costco stores offer discount prices on an average of about 4‚000 products‚ ranging from alcoholic beverages and appliances to fresh food‚ pharmaceuticals‚ and tires‚ making it fall into other type of industry; Warehouse Clubs & Superstores. To shop at Costco‚ customers must be members -- a policy the company believes reinforces customer loyalty and provides a steady source of fixed revenue (Hoover’s
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Case Study of Union Carbide Corporation and Bhopal The Central Issue: This case makes us think how to prevent the mismanagements of subsidiaries in abroad. And it also brings attention to specific issues including government relationships with multinational corporations and environmental abuse. Recommended course of Action: Safety issues were virtually ignored at the Bhopal plant. To prevent tragedy like this‚ Union Carbide needs to take significant precautions in Bhopal. Union Carbide should check
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Digital Cell Phone‚ Inc. Case Study Paul Jordan’s boss gave him an assignment where he was required to look at cell phone orders for the past three years. With this information‚ he is to use new planning techniques to project expected orders for the next 6 to 12 months‚ as well as advise his boss on what actions he should take for future production. The method we used to forecast the cell phone orders for the upcoming year is regression analysis; we calculated the linear regression formula from
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Stryker Corporation Deciding whether to keep outsourcing or in-source PCBs Stryker Corporation has 3 different options regarding the supply of needed PCBs. Option 1: contemplates the fact of keeping the same suppliers but with significant changes in order to assure continuous supply of PCBs and quality. No investment is needed. Option 2: establishing a partner with a single supplier. This way there would be a sole supplier for Stryker established in a new facility near them‚ this would give
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The Boeing Corporation is the world’s leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined. Additionally‚ Boeing designs and manufactures rotorcraft‚ electronic and defense systems‚ missiles‚ satellites‚ launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. As a major service provider to NASA‚ Boeing operates the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. The company also provides numerous military and commercial airline
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key measurable need to be set for each center‚ which in our case have been overlooked. As a result‚ many of these centers have over spent‚ resulting in over expenditures‚ something we can definitely not afford with anticipated slower market. Brian Walter Jr. had a great vision of not turning into “bureaucratic‚ quantitatively‚ grey-suited manager ...”‚ yet the alternative was not clearly specified. Currently‚ Victoria Heavy Equipment Limited (V.H.E.) with lower sales and disgruntled workers is
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For the period of 7 years‚ the management spent $15.1 Billion in exploration activities. By right‚ the amount spent should have resulted in an increase in the company’s performance represented in an increase in shareholder’s wealth. That was not the case with Gulf. The management of Gulf was spending huge amount of money without proper analysis‚ in a nutshell‚ they were showing careless attitude in managing assets of the company. This was reflected in huge market undervaluation of company’s stock‚
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Case Study: Liquidation.com Electronic commerce and digital marketing Group 3 24/11/2010 1. Business Background Every organization deals with surplus assets — whether it is excess inventory‚ damaged items‚ end of lifecycle equipment or customer returns. While most manufacturers‚ retailers‚ corporations and government agencies have well-established forward supply chain processes‚ goods in the reverse supply chain are a huge‚ and often costly‚ distraction for these organizations Liquidity
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I. INTRODUCTION I. PROBLEM STATEMENT Dan Barnes‚ financial manager of Ski Equipment Inc. (SKI) is anxious that the Company’s founder recently sold his 51% controlling block of stock to Kent Koren‚ who is a big fan of EVA (Economic Value Added). Koren rewards managers handsomely if they create value‚ but those whose operations produce negative EVAs are soon looking for work. Koren frequently points out that if a company can generate its current level of sales with fewer assets‚ it would need
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