Organizations CASE WRITE UP # 3 MANAGING GLOBAL TEAM_GREG JAMES CASE Due March 2‚ 2015 Name: Sultan Ahmad Zarif ID #: 12552 Year: 2015 MANAGING GLOBAL TEAM_GREG JAMES CASE Case Brief Explanation This case is about how leaders should manage their global operations successfully. The case describes a crisis resulted by lack of effective leadership by Greg James who was the global manager at Sun Microsystems‚ Inc. (Sun) across India‚ UAE‚ France and USA. Greg James became aware of a problem
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► February (1) Managing People in Organizations ▼ January (1) Case - Managing A Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems‚ Inc. (A) Managing People in Organizations Case - Managing ... Case is available here - http://www.scribd.com/doc/37095326/Managing-a-Global-Team-SunMicrosystems About Me Analysis: Raring Roadster People Involved View my complete profile Greg James - A fast growing manager at IBM who faces a sudden series of issues in his team‚ which spans 3 countries
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Outsourcing and Managing a Global Team 1. What is outsourcing? What are the benefits of outsourcing? The author presents the process of outsourcing as the ability to take a specific and limited task or function performed within one company and having the same function performed by another company in a sort of complementarity. The outsourced task is then reintegrated back into the overall operation. Essentially outsourcing is a common way for many companies to hire efficient employees for a very
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| Managing a Global Team-Greg James at Sun Microsystems‚ Inc | Case Analysis | | Long Cui | Hawaii Pacific UniversityDr. Kenneth Gerard RossiApril 30‚ 2013 | | Brief Summary Greg James‚ a global manager at Sun Microsystems‚ Inc.‚ led a customer implementation team of 45 members spread across India‚ France‚ the United Arab Emirates (UAE)‚ and the United States (US). It was the second time that the team
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A complete analysis was conducted on the financial statements and status of Sun Microsystems. After examining the research findings and analysis it is fair to say that evidence determines that Sun Microsystems finances has not been on a steady incline. In fact‚ it had definitely experienced some highs and lows in its return on investment and stockholders? In order to get a concise understanding of where problems are within the company’s operations the following factors were considered and examined:
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Introduction Sun Microsystems is a leading supplier of computer related products‚ including servers‚ workstations‚ storage devices‚ and network switches. In the 2001 annual report‚ a letter to stockholders from the President and CEO Scott G. McNealy offered a remark saying that the fiscal year was ended with a significant revenue growth of 16% and that was a good indication of gaining market share. Also‚ that the employees were responsible for bringing the costs down and new products to the market
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Oracle acquired Sun in 2010. Sun Microsystems is a diversified IT company that makes everything from hardware such as semiconductor chips to software. The company has a presence in several different markets which means that they have to compete with a large number of competitors amongst these different markets. Many of these competitors are specialized in their respective fields. In order to determine the best strategy for the company‚ we first need to understand and analyze its internal and external
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interested party for a minimal fee => several different branches were developed -> FX the BSD version (Berkeley Software Distribution). Many of the hardware suppliers made their own version of UNIX whit competing features. (IBM‚ Hewlett-Packard‚ and Sun) => different workstation and server manufacturers’ UNIX-based systems diverged in several characteristics. Servers * servers = the backbone of networks (where printers ‚ files and applications software are share) * “client-server” architecture
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SUN MICROSYSTEM CASE: Chapter 3 - Comprehensive Problem 2 Sun Microsystems is a leading supplier of computer related products‚ including servers‚ workstations‚ storage devices‚ and network switches. In the letter to stockholders as part of the 2001 annual report‚ President and CEO Scott G. McNealy offered the following remarks: “Fiscal 2001 was clearly a mixed bag for Sun‚ the industry‚ and the economy as a whole. Still‚ we finished with revenue growth of 16 percent—and that’s significant. We believe
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Running head: COMPREHENSIVE PROBLEM: SUN MICROSYSTEMS Comprehensive Problem: Sun Microsystems A complete analysis conducted on the financial statements and status of Sun Microsystems exposed key issues determined to be of great import to shareholders. After examining the research findings and analysis‚ it seems that Sun Microsystems finances have not maintained a steady incline. In fact‚ it had definitely experienced some highs and lows in its return on investment and stockholders’ equity
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