industry? Illustrate your arguments with examples from the Elevator manufacturing/service industry (OTISLINE Case). 1. IT provided OTISLINE with competitive advantage in elevators service sector as based they were able to build a centralized ‚ reliable‚ efficient‚ high quality‚ faster responsive customer service system. 2. The same infrastructure for OTISLINE was used across different value chain to enhance the productivity of elevator sales representative and service mechanics groups‚ ex NES
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KONE: The MonoSpace Launch in Germany Nature of the Situation: KONE Aufzug is the Germanic branch of KONE from Finland. During November 1996 Raimo Hätälä‚ the New Elevator Business director‚ was planning to launch a new product in the low-rise building market. The elevator industry in Germany was highly competitive and mature. From 1995‚ when the construction boom ended abruptly‚ until 2000 they expected the demand to shrink by 15%. This provoked the prices to fell between 5% and 7% in 1994
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DES4170 Global Logistics Management Team 1 Paper Topic: Otis Elevator Q1. What kind of company is Otis? The Otis Elevator‚ a subsidiary of the United Technologies‚ was founded by Elisha Graves Otis. Ever since the first ‘safety-brake elevator’ being sold in 1853‚ Otis has been the leader of the elevator industry for more than 150 years. The core business of Otis is to design‚ manufacture‚ install elevators‚ escalators and moving walkways and provide services worldwide. With its engineering headquarters
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4.) In Messa‚ the plaintiff was attacked by a guard dog when she exited the elevator on the fifth floor. When she entered the elevator she was unware that the fifth floor was residential and that it contained guard dogs. Once she exited the elevator the guard dogs immediately attacked her after a few steps. (Messa at 2.) The court held that the plaintiff’s only actions at this point consisted of stepping off the elevator and walking a short distance down the hallway‚ towards the defendant’s door
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Setting is used to place them in an awkward situation in which they start predicting they do not have a chance with one another. As soon as “he entered the elevator” and asked politely “ground floor‚ please” she thought he sounds nice‚ but then she also started thinking “he wouldn’t notice me”. I think that is because she is in an elevator in which she can’t look at him‚ it’s very silent‚ you are only there for about one minute so there won’t have flowing conversation‚ and it might just be them
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Elisha Graves Otis was the man who invented elevator breaks. He was born on a farm near a city called Halifax‚ Vermont. He was the youngest of 6 children. His parents’ names were Steepen and Phoebe Otis. When he was little‚ his health was very poor. He went to school in his home town of Halifax‚ where he was born. His education ended at the age of 19 when he moved away from home. When he left his home town‚ he moved to Tory‚ New York. He lived there for 5 years. For those 5 years‚ he carried on
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bold and aggressive business plan for entering the Indian elevator market for his company‚ Schindler. Having developed the business plan for entering the Indian elevator market‚ Silvio was selected by his company to lead the development of Schindler India‚ a wholly owned subsidiary of the Swiss based company. His plan was to differentiate by selling “core‚ standardized products‚” in a market where customization and a wide range of elevator products was the norm. He also proposed keeping costs down
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: Mr. B.T. Bear worked in the elevator in the big old department house at the corner of Cherry Street and Maple Street. Mr. B.T. had many good friends in the old apartment house. But little Benny Bear was Mr. B.T.’s best friend. Benny has just come back from a walk with his father and mother. He ran to the elevator and pushed the button. Then he waited for his friend Mr. B.T. to come. Mr. B.T. opened the rattlety elevator door . “Hello there‚ Benny‚” said Mr. B.T
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society. In fact‚ social rules tend to become more obvious once they are violated. The elevator experiment clearly demonstrated this idea. The focus of this research was to see if people conformed when they were faced in odd circumstances. When a new person entered the elevator‚ a group of individuals faced the back of an elevator. This was a simple way to observe social conformity because facing the back of an elevator is not the norm in our society. Because most people tend to face the door‚ we were
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In every society‚ there are unspoken agreements that describe what is acceptable and what is not. These things are called the institutionalized norms. Each society’s norms vary by its culture. Norms‚ according to Newman‚ mainly only present a “general framework of expectations.” So‚ within a society‚ each individual must be aware of what he or she can and cannot do. If one was to deviate from a norm‚ the deviator will then be looked upon society as “untrained” or “undisciplined.” As a student
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