Course: MGT (Organizational Development and Change) Semester 2‚ 2013/2014 Session Term Paper/Project: You are assigned a project and the report is to be submitted as a group. Each member has to fully participate in preparing this project. You are to approach an organization and apply what you have learnt in this course by carrying out the following activities: 1) Identify and obtain permission from an organization in carrying out OD consulting work by identifying area(s) in the organization
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Dell Computer have recently announced changes to their business strategy and supporting supply chain. They will no longer focus on a made to order direct sales model for their personal computers. Nor will they continue to refine their renowned supply chain model that supported their sales model. Instead‚ they will be looking to produce personal computers with fixed configurations at lower prices. This essay looks at why Dell have changed their strategy‚ and then considers the customer value proposition
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Kurt Lewin Kurt Lewin was a great innovater at his time in the field of Psychology. The theories he developed‚ the methods of reserch he used and the people he influenced all have had a profound impact on Psychology and even more specifically on Social Psychology. Lewin was born in 1890 in what is now Poland but at the time was the Prussian province of Posen‚ in the village of Moglino and was the second of four children (Greathouse). His parents owned a general store‚ and a farm on the outskirts
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consulting partners that evaluates the idea of holding a large-scale‚ community-building meeting. You will want to evaluate the forces that will help it be successful and the forces that would hinder such a meeting from being an effective method for change. Include between 5–10 helping and 5–10 hindering factors. Make sure the hindering factors are not just the opposite quality of a helping factor (or vice-versa for the helping factors). Use this format or one similar to it -------------------------------------------------
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Case 7-5: Dell Computer Corporation Discussion questions 1. What is Dell’s strategy? Dell’s strategy was based on: • Market leadership as a result of a persistent focus on delivering the best possible customer experience. Direct selling‚ from manufacturing to consumer‚ was a key component of its strategy. • Its reputation as one of the world’s most preferred computer systems companies and a premier provider of products and services that customers worldwide needed to build
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What attract me in the Dell Company is to see how a vision can match the future. □ The Company was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell‚ now the computer industry’s longest-tenured chief executive officer‚ on a simple concept: that by selling personal computer systems directly to customers‚ Dell could best understand their needs‚ and provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs. Dell Computer’s mission statement is: "Dell’s mission is to be the most successful computer
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Unit 3 Project 1 Developing High Performance April 8‚ 2006 MGT 420-0602A-02 Organizational Change Read The OD Letters in Chapter 7 of your text. You are to act as an OD practitioner who has been asked to advise Ryan on how to work with the XRS Laser Group. Create a case analysis using the "Case Analysis Format" as it appears on page 212 of your text. You can add additional space to this format if you need room to fully explain or examine different sections of the form. Additionally‚
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Question 1 How has Dell used its direct sales and build-to-order model to develop an exceptional supply chain? The many challenges in order to improve the supply chains usually come with the unidentified. Many companies produce products they think their consumer will want. After that‚ they ship their products to retail stores. Then‚ these stores try to sell the products to the customers. Here‚ the supply chains slows down as they are figuring out what to build next. Then‚ these companies deal
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3. Diamond Organizational Model Leavitt‟s diamond (see Figure 1) presents a balanced and rational view toward complexities affecting KM framework. It also views technology in direct and strong relation with required tasks‚ employees‚ and task organization i.e. structure. This model has been widely used as the basis for understanding and realizing organizational changes. Leavitt‟s diamond (1965) demonstrates four groups of organizational variables: task‚ people‚ technology‚ and structure. As the
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Organizational Change: “No man ever steps in the same river twice‚ for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man."‚ -Heraclitus. Change is the one thing that we must all face. Every organization must change not only to survive‚ but also to retain its relevance in a world of intense competition‚ constant scientific progress‚ and rapid communication. It is inevitably necessary because without change organizations would be left behind and looses their competitive advantages
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