Promoting Ethical Ultrasound Use in India A BLIHR Emerging Economy Case Study from GE – January 2009 Introduction: The Benefits and Burdens of Ultrasound Technology The distribution of compact‚ portable ultrasound technology in India offers significant potential health benefits to millions who suffer from painful or potentially lifethreatening diseases‚ such as breast cancer‚ uterine fibroids‚ cardiac disease and gynecological disorders. Ultrasound technology also has the potential to increase efficacy
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GE Energy and GE Healthcare Case Study 1. What are the business benefits of using information technology to build strategic customer relationships for GE Energy and GE Healthcare? What are the business benefits for their customers? Technology is no longer an afterthought in forming business strategy‚ but the actual cause and driver. Networking and data storage & analysis technologies enabled GE to gain a competitive advantage by providing unique products and services to their customers. What
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GE’s Case analysis Jack Welch 1. He has adopted 3 D’s (Downsizing‚ destaffing and delayering). He has made hierarchical changes across the organization by reducing hierarchy level from 9 to 4. 2. Fix‚ Sell or close the business in which GE is not either No.1 or No.2. Between 1981 to 1990 they had sold more than 200 businesses which has accounted for 25% of 1980 sales. 3. Restructuring the organization - Jack Welch stated the above objective into a 3 circle concept. Business were categorized
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| Case Study: General Electric Company | GE’s Strategy Equates Longevity | | For so long‚ General Electric has provided the world with pioneering products and superlative services. How does a company endure the economic cycle for over a century and continue to make headway? In this paper I intend to discuss some of the aspects that have enabled GE to have fruitful success for over one hundred-thirty years. I will briefly discuss the overall strategy of the company and the approaches
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Welch received his Master of Science and Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois in 1960. After completing his years of education‚ Welch was hired by General Electric Corporation (GE) as a chemical engineer for the Plastics department. Promotions followed rapidly and at the age of 45‚ in April 1981‚ he became CEO of GE‚ one of the world’s leading diversified industrial companies. Even though‚ the U.S. economy was in a recession during that time and unemployment rates were very high‚ Welch found the
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Case analysis-Strategic IT Transformation at Accenture Accenture was separated from its parent company and rebranded as a new organization. They face a challenge of building a new IT infrastructure to support their business. Because the new Accenture’s organization structure is different from the Anderson Consulting‚ the Anderson’s IT is deficient in several ways. Based on the deficient aspects I have some own recommendations and then I will analyse what Accenture did to deal with the situation
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had a large competitive advantage in the large turbine industry for three primary reasons: better r&d and hence improved technology‚ a clear focus on larger‚ more technologically sophisticated units‚ and its status as a price leader in the market. GE had almost twice the R&D budget of both of its major competitors‚ while simultaneously spending less on R&D as a percentage of sales. This allowed it to have the best technology in the most important market segment in terms of growth: large‚ complex
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Question #1 How difficult a challenge did Welch face in 1981? How effectively did he take charge? When Jack Welch took over as CEO of GE in April 1981‚ the world was in a recession. GE needed to be restructured‚ and this involved restructuring‚ reduction of its payroll and modernization. Jack Welch adopted a strategy of “Fix‚ Sell or Close”. This strategy enabled GE to exit unprofitable businesses and restructure loss-making businesses into profitable businesses. Jack Welch’s management technique
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Sam Roberts‚ a correspondent for the New York Times‚ author of A Decade of Fear‚ published on March 15‚ 2010‚ addresses the topic of McCarthyism by providing his audience with the effects McCarthyism had on Americans and explanations of how it was viewed by different kinds of people. Roberts supported his article with direct quotes from influential people during that time period and facts explaining‚ in great detail‚ how McCarthyism led to the distrust between Americans. Sam Roberts described how
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services which need a large amount of investment and cost in order to run the business and develop the products and services. It is very difficult for the new entry because GE has a very strong brand and reputation as well as patents and know-how that has the new entry cannot be done in the short period in order to compete with GE and other major competitors in this industry. The power of buyers The bargaining power of the buyers is high. This is because‚ the extremely high of switching cost from
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