capacity is reached. Outsourcing is a good strategy for the following situations: Tasks that require specific manufacturing equipment and technical expertise can be outsourced to vendors who specialize in these fields to produce goods faster and of better quality. Outsourcing the supporting processes enables the firm to concentrate on its core business processes. Outsourcing also helps in risk sharing since the outsourced vendor is a specialist who can mitigate risks better. Outsourcing also helps a firm
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1. What has led the LEGO group to the edge of bankruptcy? External threats (macro PEST‚ micro Porter’s 5 forces) giant conglomerates dominating industry (risk of being taken over) p.2 competing rising costs while competitors outsource p.2 pressure from big retail customers with power? e.g. Walmart‚ Target p.2 negative industry trends in toy industry p.1 1) fad toys are rising and product life cycles declining. threat of shortening/declining life cycle despite rise of fad toys
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Situation Analysis: * The construction toy market is worth $600 million * Lego is a $1.6 billion business in the construction toy market spread across 130 countries * Lego enjoys 80% of market share in the North American market * Lego is as an esteem brand and is looked upon not only as a toy company but also a company with toys that develop learning and new skills * Due to competitors like Mega Bloks Inc.‚ Hasbro etc. Lego started losing market share * Some of the major reasons
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| |An Examination of Pricing Strategy | |The LEGOTM Group‚ Ltd | |
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The Berries experienced the pre-affiliation stage when we first formed our small groups. We were not familiar with each other at first so the activity using the prompt cards given to us in class to get to know each were really helpful. We did not see our relationships as intimate‚ as most of us had never met‚ we just happen to be sitting close to each other in class and that was how we picked our group. At first‚ we did not even want to get together to watch 12 Angry Men and watched it on our
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1. Recap the Facts I learned from Uli’s slideshow LEGO made action figures in yellow to allow children to allow their imaginations to think of the figures as any color. The diversity of the toys moves into the hiring process to equalize the diversity in the company. I have noticed in most of our slideshows there is a certain percentage of women in executive teams. LEGO has one woman in the executive team. This was surprising because I stereotype women as caregivers for children and would know more
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Contents 1. Introduction - 3 - 1.1 Problem statement - 3 - 1.2 Delimitation - 3 - 1.3 Report structure - 4 - 1.4Methodology section - 4 - 2. Organizational structure and design of LEGO - 4 - 2.1 Organizational design of Lego - 5 - 3. Influence of organizational type to internal relationship in company - 7 - 3.1 Relationship with customers - 8 - 4. SWOT - 8 - 4.1 Making weaknesses into strengths - 10 - 5. Suggestions of motivation improvements - 10 - 6. Conclusion - 11 - 7
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Name: Tony El Khoury Date: 21/03/2013 Two Stories of Outsourcing Question # 1: Auratek Company had experiences with outsourcing to cut cost in fabricating data storage devices. The aim of all this was to improve quality and decrease in the development and fabrication process which will decrease the after-sales support. The company estimated that the cost savings could achieve approximately $ 2 million annually due to reduced cost of engineering in India. In Auratek Company we can see
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SWOT Analysis SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities‚ and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. It involves specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favourable and unfavourable to achieving that objective. The technique is credited to Albert Humphrey‚ who led a research project at Stanford University in the 1960s and 1970s using data from
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Outsourcing With unemployment rates increasing and new jobs seemingly nonexistent‚ outsourcing has become the center of a lot of hate in the Unites States. In 2011 alone‚ over two million jobs were outsourced to different countries. I can see why this has upset workers who don’t look forward to the not-so-upper-middle-class type of lifestyle. They can grumble and argue all they want‚ but the truth is‚ outsourcing isn’t going to go away‚ and is in fact the future of business and production. In
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