Memo To: Kun Hee Lee‚ Chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics From: Josh Graham‚ Senior Consultant‚ Whirlwind Consulting Co. Date: 28-Apr-08 Re: Emerging Chinese DRAM industry Executive Summary Whirlwind Consulting Company has reviewed the current position of Samsung in the semiconductor and memory chip industry‚ and has completed an extensive internal and external analysis to determine Samsung’s options in response to the threat of significant future expansion within the Chinese semiconductor industry
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Group 2 Samsung Electronics Executive Summary Recent quality related issues have put Samsung Electronics‚ one of the world’s largest technology companies at risk. These quality concerns‚ spiked through recent recalls and external complaints‚ have generated a flow of bad news coming to the desk of quality director Kevin Sarni. The issues most commonly found within the complaints related to display issues‚ customer service support‚ faulty electric components‚ audio‚ and safety. Of the main
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Case Study 26: Samsung Electronics 1. The five dimensions of Entrepreneurial Orientation are key factors that firm’s practice in order to be successful in an industry. These five factors consist of autonomy‚ innovativeness‚ proactiveness‚ competitive aggressiveness‚ and risk taking. The first dimension‚ autonomy‚ describes how an independent action by a person or a team working on project has a vision or concept for a business and develops the plan and carries it out‚ onto completion. The second
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founded Samsung in March 1‚ 1938. Byung-Chull Lee started the company in Taegu‚ Korea with only 30‚000 won‚ and it was originally focused on trade export‚ selling dried fish‚ vegetables‚ and fruit to the cities of Manchuria and Beijing. A few years later after Samsung was founded‚ the company acquired its own flour mills and confectionary machines‚ later on they got their own manufacturing and sales operations‚ and eventually evolved to become the modern corporation that is known today. Samsung has
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Organizational Structure and Design Prepared By: Anuj Arora – 12FN019 Himika Chaudhary Nitin Mudgal Prateek Kumar – 12DM101 Sachin Gupta – 12FN107 Index 1.1 Introduction Samsung India Electronics Ltd is a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Corporation headquartered in Seoul‚ Korea. The company was incorporated in the year 1995. The company is having their head office at Delhi and branch office at 16 locations all over the India. Their manufacturing facilities are located at Noida in Uttar
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Company Background: Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics was established in 1969 in order to provide an engine of future growth for the Samsung Group. Though the electronics industry seemed promising in the 1960s‚ none of the Korean firms had advanced technology. Samsung began by producing low-end black–and-white televisions in a joint venture with Sanyo‚ a Japanese electronics company. With NEC‚ another Japanese firm‚ it produced Braun tubes and kinescope tubes. After three years‚ it began
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should be found liable for any infringements. Further Microsoft reached a licensing agreement in April 2010 with HTC to pay royalties on Android based handsets ("Patent wars"‚ 2011). More recently‚ Apple launched a lawsuit against Samsung in April 2011 claiming Samsung copied design features of the iPhone in its Galaxy line of Android phones (Quigley‚ 2011). These are just a few examples of legal challenges faced by smartphone manufacturers. Mentioning all lawsuits in the past several years is beyond
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Case Analysis for Samsung Electronics 1. What is SMIC’s strategy? Should Samsung be concerned about SMIC? SMIC seems to execute the same kind of strategy Samsung used before to succeed. The strategy is selling their products at low prices and growing their market share at the expense of profitability. SMIC may threaten Samsung’s business in the future‚ but not too much. Although SMIC can get many resources‚ such as cheap funds and lands from Chinese government and foreign investors‚ SMIC
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Let’s look at each of the elements specifically: * Strategy: the plan devised to maintain and build competitive advantage over the competition. * Structure: the way the organization is structured and who reports to whom. * Systems: the daily activities and procedures that staff members engage in to get the job done. * Shared Values: called "superordinate goals" when the model was first developed‚ these are the core values of the company that are evidenced in the corporate culture
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McKinsey 1. Based on the information provided in the case‚ what kind of organizational structure does McKinsey use and why? How is it connected to its mentality type (type of company within the Bartlett & Ghoshal typology)? Company has strongly embedded “One firm” structure‚ which relates to clients‚ employees and profits. They emphasise the individual consultant development‚ so called I-shaped consultants. It is team-based organisation with team-led sectors and segments. McKinsey’s have
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