Assignment 2 (a)Outline the main forms of flexibility as defined in Atkinson’s (1984) model of the flexible firm (b) What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of the Atkinson model? ANSWER PLAN: Introduction/Background o What are the aims of flexibility o Guest (1987) de-centralisation helps to create flexibility o What are the main forms of flexibility that modern organisation need Body: 4 types of flexibility o Functional/Temporal/Numerical/Financial Body 2: Atkinson’s
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Lecture 16 Cathay Pacific Doing More with Less Announcements • Final Exam vote 2 Final Exam Outline • 8-11am‚ Wednesday June 13 • Half short and long answers on theory and principles from course • Half case-study • Open or closed book??? 3 Cathay Pacific Characteristics • Mid-tier airline • 15‚000 staff‚ 77 wide body aircraft • Old airline – 50 years history – Vulnerable to cost cutting airlines • Global everywhere except China – Lost landing rights in 1984 –
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Strategic outsourcing for success Summary results of the 2008 outsourcing report Making an informed decision BEST Audit Tax Consulting Financial Advisory . . . . For Five Years Running Outsourcing is generally recognised as a strategy for producing cost savings‚ however‚ by simply following a traditional cost-focused approach‚ companies may be missing opportunities to gain further competitive advantage. Why Settle For Less? Deloitte Consulting 2008 Outsourcing Report is
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Outsourcing BUS 630: Managerial Accounting Outsourcing The pros and cons of outsourcing varies by industry‚ size of organization‚ organizational structure‚ and many other components. The pros and cons are highlighted and the fall of Satyam to encompass a full range of accounting aspects. All size organizations outsource a portion of his or her business. Therefore‚ taking time to reflect on the points identified in this paper may enlighten or create ideas for consideration regarding outsourcing
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Part 1 Differences between “Formal Research” and “Business Proposals” There is a great difference between a formal research proposal and a business proposal. In fact these two types of proposals seem to be very similar but there are critical differences in the overall purpose‚ uses and goals. With such distinct differences for a writer it helps in understanding for writing the formal research proposal or business proposal more effectively. The general purpose of a proposal is the identify a particular
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The next section contains an analysis of the relationship between procurement and resource-‐based theory and discusses empirical works on outsourcing that address outsourcing from the resource-‐based view. The studies are classified into two categories: those studying the propensity to procure and those studying
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Outsourcing‚ Make or buy (Outsourcing in personal computing industry Dell‚ Acer‚ HP) What can outsouce? What can produce? Why are they doing it? Outsourcing is a task or the process that the employee within the business could able to perform it however‚ the organization itself is contracted to third party to perform that function internally or certain period of time without purchasing it as a service. For example‚ Dell has been outsourced some of the production units to China and India to cut
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to support all of the areas within the company that are in need. This has been more evident and is especially true since Acorda doubled the outside field sales team from fifty sales representatives to 100 sales representatives. I would like to outline a plan to triple the head count within our IT department from three to ten employees. From my perspective‚ as an employee of the company‚ Acorda has a large gap between business personnel and IT personnel. According to our book‚ Business Driven
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security risk as a consequence of ANZ Bank recent outsourcing strategy. This report discusses three main issues that ANZ Bank’s management may have to consider if it is to enhance strength and core competency. Customer value proposition Firstly‚ as ANZ Bank has stressed that ‘becomes a super regional bank’ is a core strategy objective (ANZ 2012)‚ ANZ will have to consider the potential effect for customer value proposition as a result of recent outsourcing strategy. It has been pointed that the problem
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presidential debate. There are so many questions come to us when we talk about outsourcing. Sending jobs to countries who don’t ask for much is easier than paying Americans who ask for what will get them through the day. Workers in countries such as china and India are hard workers. Many people do not realize that outsourced jobs leave many Americans unemployed. Another problem is that we have more than Americans relying on us. Outsourcing affects everyone. That’s why many young Americans are going to other
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