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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Case Analysis General Motors - 2005 Course Instructor: Prof Dr Ali Askari Date: October 29th‚ 2010 Group # 5 Niveen Qadri (29) Muzna Ahmed (28) Maryam Khan (21) Sidra-Tun-Nisa (37) General Motors I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • Mission: General Motors is committed to be a leader in providing transportation products and services of such quality that its customers will receive superior value‚ its employees and business partners will share their success and their shareholders
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International Accounting Module: A‚ 2013 Presentation Memo Name: Group 9‚ General Motors Case ! General Motors (GM) is an American multinational car and truck manufacturer considered to be one of the ’Big 3’s ’ in the automobile industry. GM faced a financial crisis in 1990 due to overcapacities‚ rising oil prices and increasing competition
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What was the stated objective of General Motors Risk Management policy? Three primary objectives: 1) Reduce cash flow and earnings volatility – this means management hedges the company’s transaction exposures and deliberately pays no attention to any balance sheet exposures or translation exposures. 2) Minimize the management time and costs dedicated to global FX management – this is as a result of an internal study that determined that the investment of resources in active FX management
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Vertical Integration as Organizational Ownership: The Fisher Body-General Motors Relationship Revisited BENJAMIN KLEIN University qfCalijbrnia‚ Los Angeles I have always considered my work with Armen Alchian and Robert Crawford (1978) on vertical integration to represent an extension of Coase ’s classic article on "The Nature of the Firm." By focusing on the "hold-up" potential that is created when firm-specific investments are made by transactors‚ or what we called the appropriation
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In 1980‚ General Motors’ executives were faced with a dilemma regarding new plant construction in Detroit‚ Michigan. GM intended to close two of its aging facilities and rebuild new assembly plants at a different site location although still in the Detroit metro area. The only land site matching the construction specifications was a settlement called Poletown‚ Michigan. This township was home to more than 3‚500 residents‚ all of whom would have to be relocated if construction were approved. The
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1 Resistance to Change: A Case Study in the Food and Beverage Department 2 Change is common in an organization and is initiated due to the need to survive and adapt to the changing market. As change is a disruption of routines and what people are used to‚ resistance to change is a common reaction of the change recipients. People resist changes because changes are uncomfortable and require them to adapt to a new way of thinking and doing things. Also‚ people have trouble envisioning how
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INFORMAL SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS – KIA MOTORS CORPORATION An informal situational analysis is being conducted on KIA Motors Corporation to analyse critically the internal and external environment as it concerns KIA so as to determine its capabilities‚ customers‚ positioning and competitors within its business environment. It would also involve the marketing and business strategy of the organization‚ how they align to achieve profitability and/or market orientation‚ we would be able to discover after
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in 1983 in Singapore‚ SMRT‚ a transport service provider‚ took over the roles and responsibility to operate Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) when it started its operations back in 1987. From 1987 to 2013‚ SMRT has grown from a medium sized corporation to a billion dollar Multi-national Company. SMRT now controls the far-reaching MRT and the light rail (LRT) system in Singapore which includes 93 stations which spreads over 136.4 km (as of 2013). Beside the MRT and LRT‚ SMRT as well owns a fleet
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1.0 Executive Summary This strategic marketing report prepared for the General Motors (GM) detailed a thorough analysis the motor vehicle market in China. GM was a US automaker company‚ and entered the market of China by joint ventures. SAIC is GM’s major joint venture partner‚ and it had become the largest plant in China. GM was earning high profits from China by 2004. However‚ GM faced the challenges from both foreign and local competitors‚ overcapacity and intervention from Chinese Government
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