External Analysis An external analysis is one of the most important tasks to complete when completing a strategic analysis for a given corporation. By looking at our Internal Analysis of General Electric (GE) we identified Strengths and Weaknesses and we were able to recognize the Distinctive and Core Competencies that exist within the General Electric organization. Our external analysis consists of two major analyses: The Competitive Analysis and the Industry Analysis. By taking a closer look
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STRENGTHS Global recognition: General Electric has ventured into the world market thus gaining global recognition for its unique goods and services. In the year 2009‚ Forbes magazine ranked GE as the world ’s largest company. Hurbert (2007) notes that General Electric ’s brand is the world ’s most recognized brand. This kind of recognition has given it a competitive edge over other companies due to its ability to attract more customers. Global strength and competitiveness:The Company’s products
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GE Capital Analysis Recommendation on Argentina’s future outlook Abstract This dissertation will determine Argentina’s current political‚ economical‚ social‚ and legal macro environments in order to make a consensus on a recommendation for the next step in GE Capital’s involvement within the country. Recommendation will be based on analysis on previous economic‚ political‚ legal and social environments of Venezuela
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motion pictures. • GE has total asset of worth US$ 797.769 billion as per Company 2008 Balance Sheet. • The company made number of acquisition in previous few years. • Enjoying high revenues and profits. • GE is the fourth most recognized brand in the world. • The ge.com is the 20th domain to have been registered on August 5th 1986. • It has four divisions namely GE Energy Infrastructure‚ GE Technology Infrastructure‚ GE Capital‚ and NBC Universal. • GE is one of the major
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Political Politics highlight the role of nation governments‚ as the large global company‚ the firm has to deal with national political systems differently. The difficulties to negotiate with government conditions including tax systems‚ regulations and restriction which the firm has to adjust the service conditions and product requirements to get into the nation markets. These will be the huge impact which the firm has to be considered properly in order to work well with the governments and reach
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Case Study Analysis on GE Capital Virginia Intermont College Case Study Analysis on GE Capital Introduction General Electric (GE) was formed in 1892 through a merger between Edison General Electric Company and Thomson-Houston Electric Company. GE started acquiring other companies within the area (Eckes‚ 2001). As a result‚ management saw this as a business opportunity leading to the formation of a company known as General Electric Contracts Corporation in 1932 (Eckes‚ 2001). The main purpose
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Coke’s European Scare Nishtha Vyas (80) Question 1. What are the management issues in this case? Answer- The major issue faced by coke was wrong and late anticipation of a problem that led to disastrous consequences. Also‚ the company’s hard earned goodwill was at stake due to poor communication and a lax approach in dealing with an issue of high priority. Coke faced serious issues inside the organization which was the lapse in quality control that contaminated the CO2 content. Coke’s myopic
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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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extended his Fix‚ sell or close fromthe national level to the international level. He also saw the challenges in other countries andeconomic difficulties as opportunities for new investments and expansions. Values added alsoincluded the transforming of GE culture to a more learning‚ knowledge sharing and demandingof excellence‚ commitment and service to the goal of the organization. Welch introduction of business service contributed to two- third of the company’s value. Last but no t the least‚ hisintroduction
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