Final Exam - Executing Strategy Volkswagen do Brasil: Drving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard Name: Roy Stoop Student number: 5877431 MSc Business Studies/Business Administration – Marketing Track University of Amsterdam (UvA) Date of submission: 23-10-2014 Case questions 1. What challenges does Thomas Schmall face upon becoming CEO of Volkswagen do Brasil (VWB)? 2. Describe VWB’s new strategy and comment on it in terms of quality of strategic thinking. 3. Does the strategy map (Exhibit
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The food company new product development _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. From my point of view‚ I tend to agree with Gerry’s approach to evaluating the output of the new product group. He did the right thing with them‚ he gave them the budget as they need so I thing the problem was in the group itself. The new product development as it seems is very important for the company so Gerry has to put great creative people at the top
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E-Consulting’s vision: E-Consulting’s “Managing the Knowledge of the new Millenium” Product Offering Product • Folio Views (SW for Information Management) • NXT 3 (Content Server for WEB). • “Paperless Office” (Documental Management solution developed on top of Folio Views & NXT 3). E-Consulting’s Paperless Office E-Consulting’s Solution for Managing Electronic Documents that : • It can back-up all type of informatino in one Infobse (up to 3GB) • Retrieves instant & precisesly
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Find Small Solutions To Big Problems The more cruel the adversity‚ the harder it is to change the status quo. Small improvement can be huge; small solutions that fit within tiny cracks represent major opportunities. 4: Think Platform‚ not Just Product A novel-risk management plan is an entire portfolio of application spin-offs targeting different markets but centered on a common core technology. Innovators resist convention and are focused on keeping the platform alive. Crisis breeds
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The focus of the paper is to explore the marketing process at Starbucks and evaluate the firm’s decisions. Marketing concepts portrayed in the case will be examined as well. Mission Statement The company’s mission is to: Establish Starbucks as the premier purveyor of the finest coffee in the world while maintaining our uncompromising principles as we grow. Starbuck’s mission statement sets a corporate vision for the company by identifying the focus of expertise‚ coffee‚ and establishing the desire
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MG 6303 SPRING 2015 THURSDAYS: Case Assignment Questions for Cases To be Downloaded by Students (Harvard Website: Instructions below) CASE # 1: Chapter # 2: Clayton Industries: Peter Arnell‚ Country Manager for Italy (#4199) Harvard Business Publishing. Questions for Analysis: DUE FEBRUARY 19‚ 2015 1. How would you grade Peter Arnell’s first two months as subsidiary general manager in Clayton SpA? 2. Which plan of action should Arnell recommend to Dan Briggs and Simonne Buis when they visit
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policies and practices that will meet employees’ needs‚ thus contribute to the organization’s performance and mission. This essay will analyze critically on how and why people are of value to organization based on the model‚ concepts‚ and assumptions of Harvard / SHRM model. Besides‚ it will also discuss how each model can contribute to company success through valuing and managing its employees. Employees are the most valuable thing as they are the people who can add value to the organization through their
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Case Problem 2: Office Equipment‚ Inc. 1. l = 1 llamada/50 hours = 0.02 calls per hour 2. Mean service time = travel time + repair time = 1 + 1.5 = 2.5 hours m = 1 / 2.5 hours = 0.4 customers per hour 3. The travel time is 1 hour. While this is considered part of the service time it actually means that the customer will be waiting during the first hour of the service time. Thus‚ travel time must be added to the time spent in line as predicted model in order to determine
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1) - What characteristics of the ODI contacts are likely to make it appealing/unappealing to chicken farmers Characteristics of the product : new contact lenses for nonhuman application • depth perception reduced to about 12" • visual acuity greatly reduced (astigmatism) • hydrophilic polymer : no irritation problem • slightly larger than the eye opening to keep it in place • red tint alters appetite of chickens and cannibalism tendencies • distortion built into the crown • inner eyelid
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On March 26‚ 2014 William Harris published an essay titled Change in the Land: Willa Cather’s Midwest that reflects a conversation with the reader about two sources‚ Franzen and Cather‚ about topics that identify the “essence” of the Midwest‚ or environmental issues. In the essay Harris writes‚ “the land wanted to be let alone‚ to preserve its own fierce strength‚ its peculiar‚ savage kind of beauty‚ its uninterrupted mournfulness‚” (31). As a reader‚ I found this illuminating to my own experience
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