Creating innovation for competitive advantage: A Procter & Gamble case study Introduction Companies must innovate in order to keep ahead of their competitors. If an organisation wants to create a business strategy that keeps it at the forefront of innovation‚ it must develop ways of making that strategy work. Being innovative does not just involve using the expertise of market researchers‚ scientists and product developers to create new products. It also involves using the capabilities
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C A S E S T U D Y Bulwark Securities’ new managers get a five-pound policy manual They need a lot more. When a New Manager Stumbles‚ Who’s at Fault? i ll liiilll!!!!! ’ by Gordon Adler Everything was fine until Paul MacKinley‚ my manager at the Minneapolis‚ Minnesota‚ branch of Bulwark Securities‚ waved me down in the parking lot. It was June 1995. He was standing directly in the hright Sim‚ so I had to squint to make out his features. "Goldstone‚" he said‚ "there’s
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By: M. Bertaccini‚ L. Dovesi‚ G. Nicolini‚ M. Olivieri‚ MC. Penna‚ M. Perini. ELEVATOR PITCH (1) What Zipcar is • Car sharing company. • Offer of a service to the registered members that allows them to move around the city in a smarter and easier way. • The value for the members is the possibility of benefit the usage of a car without all the problems correlated to the possession. • New concept in the U.S. serving a new market niche‚ the urban‚ car-less residents. • Based on a successful model
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MMUBS 2010/2011 academic year The Global context of modern business (unit code 5E1140) Unit co-ordinator Dr. O Kuznetsova ASSIGNMENT BRIEF Submission requirements: • deadline (hand-in day): 26 January 2011 (Wednesday) • submission form: o electronic ONLY on-line submission (e-submission‚ e-receipting) o DO NOT submit coursework (or copies of) directly to your tutor • cover page: title‚ name‚ tutor (NOT the Unit Leader or Academic Tutor)‚ word count (TEXT BODY ONLY: appendices
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sporting goods manufacturers globally. Distributing products is one of the main concerns to keeping them in the lead. DEFINITION OF DISTRIBUTION Distribution is transferring of the ownership of a product from a manufacturer to a consumer. In case a manufacturer does not transfer the product directly to the consumer‚ there may be intermediaries. Based on this‚ a distribution channel is a chain of intermediaries where each transfers a product until it reaches the final consumer (Kotler et al
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Procter & Gamble GBS Report & Recommendations Introduction: P & G is the quintessential American company‚ with more than 175 years of history. Coming from humble roots‚ it was established by a partnership of William Procter and his brother in law James Gamble. Over its extensive history‚ P&G has followed an aggressive “growth by acquisition” strategy which has transformed it into the global manufacturer of household & health items in the world. After P & G’s merger with
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Questions: 1) The reengineering efforts of P&G focused on the business process system. Do you think other processes‚ such as the human system‚ or other managerial policies need to be considered in a process redesign? 2) What do you think was the reaction of the brand managers‚ who may have worked under the old system for many years‚ when the category management structure was installed? 3) As a consultant‚ would you have recommended a top-down or a bottom-up approach‚ or both‚ to process redesign
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Procter & Gamble: Competing with Itself – and Winning Procter & Gamble is one of the world’s [premier consumer-goods companies. Some 99 percent of all U.S. households use at least one of P&G’s over 300 brands‚ and the typical household regularly buys and uses from one to two dozen P&G brands. P&G sells multiple brands of laundry detergent‚ bath soap‚ shampoo‚ dishwashing detergent‚ tissues and paper towels‚ deodorant‚ fabric softener‚ cosmetics‚ and disposable diapers worldwide. Moreover‚ P&G
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Manufacturing the way we see it Collaborating for Innovation Capgemini’s 2010 Global Survey – How to Make a Leap by Applying Collaboration in the Innovation Process CONTENTS Introduction 3 Executive Summary 4 Corporate Strategy 7 Innovation Performance R&D Collaboration 13 Customer Collaboration 16 Supplier Collaboration 18 Recommendations 2 10 21 Manufacturing the way we see it Introduction Innovation has become an important
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History‚ development and growth: International Business Machines (IBM) Global Services in operating in a changing environment‚ Sine December 1996‚ when IBM established IBM Global Services (IGS)‚ had achieved outstanding business result.IGS had grown faster than the industry‚ and IBM Global Services was then widely recognized as the largest computer services company in the world. Being led by its CEO Mr. Gerstner‚ IGS is facing a changing tide where they must make a strategic decision to either
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