Background John Amasi is the Director of Production and Engineering at RL Wolfe‚ “a $350M privately held plastic pipe manufacturer headquartered in Houston‚ Texas” (Gavin & Collins‚ 2009). John is Director of two companies soon to be three and is looking to implement Self-Directed Teams‚ (SDTs) into RL Wolfe’s third company which will be called Corpus Christy. RL Wolfe’s other two companies are unionized and are facing many issues. Amasi has done much research and has learned that Self-Directed Teams
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Matching Dell 1. Analyzing Dell’s value chain and competitive strategy‚ explain how Dell was able to succeed (build competitive advantage) in the low profitable situation of the PC market. “Value Chain Analysis” is a tool for analyzing the value creation system of competitors. Objective is to develop a value creating system with competitive advantage. A value chain is a chain of activities. Products pass all activities of the chain in order and at each activity the product gains some value. The
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ICE-FILI CASE 1 - How attractive is the Russian ice cream industry in 2002? The main data about the attractiveness of this market are: - The consumption is about 6 times lower than in France‚ Canada‚ US because of a different mode of consumption. Indeed‚ Russians consider Ice Cream as an “on the go” snack and not as a dessert they can have at home. - producing in Russia implies a certain adaptability of recipes since traditional Russian ice creams contain less fat and are made with natural
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Southwest Airlines was founded by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher and began in 1971‚ servicing Dallas‚ Houston and San Antonio. In the mid 1980’s Southwest Airlines was the first to offer the frequent miles program. Allowing the passenger to bank traveled air miles to be latter used credit for a free ticket or reduced airfare. Southwest Airlines were also the pioneers of the senior discounts‚ fun fares and the fun packs. 1984 marked the 4th consecutive year Southwest Airlines ranked number one in
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MGMT 2130 CASE ANALYSIS Exam Winter 2015 STUDENT NAME:________________________________ I.D.#_________________ INSTRUCTIONS: No electronic devices of any kind are permitted during the exam. Make sure your cell phone/pager is turned off and kept out of sight. If you have a question or have to go to the bathroom‚ raise your hand. Answer all questions in the exam booklet. Time: 60 MINUTES Part Mark Received Section I / 12 Section II
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Short Summary Mr. Gradgrind is a man of "facts and calculations." He identifies a student‚ called Girl number twenty‚ who replies that her name is Sissy Jupe. Gradgrind corrects her that her name is Cecilia regardless of what her father calls her. Jupe’s father is involved in a horse-riding circus and this is not respectable‹in Gradgrind’s opinion. He advises Cecilia to refer to her father as a "farrier" (the person who shoes a horse) or perhaps‚ a "veterinary surgeon." Sissy Jupe is a slow learner
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JetBlue added E190 to its fleet. By late 2006‚ JetBlue like other airlines‚ faced softening demand and higher costs due to increasing fuel prices. Barger played a large role in the airline’s decision at the end of 2006 to slow its rate of growth by reducing its purchase commitments for new planes. In light of the operational challenges JetBlue faced in Feb 2007‚ as well as the unabated rise in fuel costs‚ Barger realized that the airline would need to take further steps to slow its rate of growth. Given
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1. Nova Southeastern University 2. H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business & Entrepreneurship 3. Assignment for Course: ISM 5014 – Enterprise Information Systems 4. Submitted to: 5. Submitted by: 6. Date of Submission: 7. Title of Assignment: Southwest and Air-Tran Merger 8. CERTIFICATION OF AUTHORSHIP: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance I received in its preparation is fully acknowledged and disclosed in the paper. I have also cited any sources from which
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Maria Lucia Rodriguez PANTHER ID 3579558 Lucent Technologies Case 1- ROE decomposition 1998‚1999 AND 2000. What factors contributed to the differences in Lucent’s performance between those quarters? ROE Period NET INCOME X SALES X TOTAL ASSETS SALES TOTAL ASSETS COMMON EQUITY EQUITY MULTIPLIER ROE Dec-99 1175 0.12 9905 0.26 38684 2.41 9905 38684 16079 Sep-99 972 0.09 10575 0.27 38735 2.84 10575 38735 13622 Jun-99 829 0.09 9315 0.25 37156 3.00
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former CEO‚ Thomas E. Finn‚ led Vyaderm to financial success with a business strategy focused solely on earnings per share. The main issue with the earnings per share approach in this case is that there was very little interest in helping build synergies across the company’s fifteen subsidiaries to support corporate strategy. In 1997‚ Vyaderm’s new CEO attempted to solve this issue by moving away from the old earnings per share business strategy in order to implement an Economic Value Added Approach
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