Final Exam - Executing Strategy Volkswagen do Brasil: Drving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard Name: Roy Stoop Student number: 5877431 MSc Business Studies/Business Administration – Marketing Track University of Amsterdam (UvA) Date of submission: 23-10-2014 Case questions 1. What challenges does Thomas Schmall face upon becoming CEO of Volkswagen do Brasil (VWB)? 2. Describe VWB’s new strategy and comment on it in terms of quality of strategic thinking. 3. Does the strategy map (Exhibit
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FROM PAPER-PUSHER TO STRATEGIC PARTNER; THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONAL by Faith Glaspie-Ellis A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Capella University November 2006 UMI Number: 3244900 Copyright 2006 by Glaspie-Ellis‚ Faith All rights reserved. UMI Microform 3244900 Copyright 2007 by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized
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materials are not intended to serve as endorsements‚ sources of primary data‚ or illustrations of effective or ineffective management. Copyright © 2013 President and Fellows of Harvard College. This publication may not be digitized‚ photocopied‚ or otherwise reproduced‚ posted‚ or transmitted‚ without the permission of Harvard Business Publishing. DOES M&A MAKE SENSE IN THIS INDUSTRY? Traditionally fragmented industry Distributors in the U.S. have recently become larger‚ more powerful Large producers
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A.Y. 2012-2013 Università della Svizzera Italiana Competitive Intelligence (3 Credits) Gianluca Colombo‚ Carmine Garzia Competitive intelligence is the continuous monitoring of rival’s business models and performances and the analysis of competitive dynamics evolution in a certain industry. Information collected through competitive intelligence activities are used by top management to support strategic decision making. The course in centered on techniques and tools to
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OPEN UNIVERSITY m a l a y s i a FACULTY OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES (FASS) _______________________________________________________________________________ ABCG3103 GLOBAL COMMUNICATION _____________________________________________________________________ “GLOBAL COMMUNICATION INDUSTRY” • Semester • SEPTEMBER 2012 [18 NOVEMBER 2012] TABLE OF CONTENTS__________________________________________________________ 1.0
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when it chose to diversify into additives and other specialty chemicals‚ developing these products within their own research laboratory in 1953 (Bartlett & Winig‚ 2012). Kent Chemical Products has grown throughout the years from its core domestic business to an international operation struggling to fully integrate globally. In 1998‚ CEO Ben Fisher decided global expansion would be Kent’s top priority stating‚ “Our goal is to remake Kent from a U.S. company dabbling in international markets to one
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advantage of their business in a simple statement. If they can’t‚ neither can anyone else. Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? by David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad Reprint R0804E It’s a dirty little secret: Most executives cannot articulate the objective‚ scope‚ and advantage of their business in a simple statement. If they can’t‚ neither can anyone else. Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? by David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad COPYRIGHT © 2008 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING
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and progress. Diversity as Strategy COPYRIGHT © 2004 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. by David A. Thomas When most of us think of Lou Gerstner and the turnaround of IBM‚ we see a great business story. A less-told but integral part of that success is a people story—one that has dramatically altered the composition of an already diverse corporation and created millions of dollars in new business. By the time Gerstner took the helm in 1993‚ IBM already
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Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate Inside the company’s new-growth factory by Bruce Brown and Scott D. Anthony 64 Harvard Business Review June 2011 HBR.ORG Bruce Brown is the chief technology officer of Procter & Gamble. Scott D. Anthony is the managing director of Innosight. June 2011 Harvard Business Review 65 B SPOTLIGHT ON PRODUCT INNOVATION 66 Harvard Business Review June 2011 BACK IN 2000 the prospects for Procter & Gamble’s Tide‚ the biggest brand in the company’s fabric
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LARRY E. GREINER ELIZABETH COLLINS A Day in the Life of Alex Sander: Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products 5:25 A.M. Sweat dripped onto the handlebars of Alex Sander’s StairMaster. Sander was half an hour into a cardiovascular workout‚ while carrying on a conversation in the fitness center of the downtown condominium complex with a neighbor who was climbing steadily on his own StairMaster. At 32‚ Alex was the newest‚ and youngest‚ product manager in the Toiletries Division of Landon
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