WORKING PAPER: 06-03 Mar. 2006 The Tata Group after the JRD Period: Management and Ownership Structure by Ram Kumar Kakani & Tejas Joshi XLRI‚ Jamshedpur 831001‚ India E-Mail: kakani@xlri.ac.in Last updated in Feb. 2008 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=889394 XLRI Working Paper: 06-03 2 The Tata Group after the JRD Period: Management and Ownership Structure1 Ram Kumar Kakani & Tejas Joshi E-Mail: kakani@xlri.ac.in Abstract Complex ownership structures
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Table of Contents Ratan Tata: Leading the Tata Group into 21st Century 2 Introduction 2 Case Question 1 3 How much of such a transformation can be attributed to one individual? Discuss the role of the leader in initiating and managing change. 3 Case Question 2 4 a) What advantages and disadvantages did the Group gain through the streamlining of businesses? 4 b) Do you think‚ as of 2009‚ the Group is still present in too many businesses? 4 Case Question 3 10 Critically discuss
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also some policies by the labour contract to avoid exploitation of labour which makes this country much more expensive The famous incident is Tata Nano project in west Bengal which had to be shifted due to the political pressure and there were riots and big problems. So this plant had to shift at different region finally it was decide to Gujarat. Ratan Tata had promised the world that it would be available next year for the common man. This was not happening because of this political problem. This
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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF TATA NANO Index 1. Company Overview of TATA motors 2. Market Demand 3. Total Sales Estimation 4. Producers Behaviour 5. Cost Structure & Pricing Strategy 1. Company Overview of Tata Motors Ltd. Tata Motors Limited is India’s largest automobile company‚ with revenues of Rs. 35651.48 crores (USD 8.8 billion) in 2007-08. It is the leader in commercial vehicles in each segment‚ and among the top three in passenger vehicles with winning products
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1.0 Source Problems Being able to maintain Tata Groups core values and vision; during a time of uncertainty in the economy and in the internal organisation as well. 2.0 Secondary Problems These problems can be identified separately as short or long term problems. Whereby the short term problems are ones that can be solved and addressed currently or instantly‚ whereas long term problems having to take some careful planning and analysis and require solutions that are spread out over a couple of
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TATA NANO "Dream-dream and dream‚ because dream gives vision‚ vision gives thoughts and finally thoughts lead to the action". Each letter of these motivational words said by India ’s former President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam goes exactly with Mr. Ratan Tata‚ Chairman of Tata group‚ who in the year 2003‚ dreamt of producing a safe‚ affordable Car for the common man. Finally after the wait of five years‚ crossing all financial and technological barriers‚ Ratan Tata kept his promise and unveiled Tata
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TATA NANO (B) Problem Analysis Bottom –line Goal: In 2010 they sale 9‚000 vehicles per month before the drop off. To recover and increase sales to 150‚000 cars per year ( 60% of the capacity of the plant – 250‚000 cars). Intermediate goal: To recover the reputation of the car of a low cost‚ good quality‚ safe and resistance to performance in Indian roads. Impediment: Car price: The price increase because of the problems with the fires that required increase the security features as
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Ratan Tata retires on his 75th birthday this week‚ handing over the baton of his business to Cyrus Mistry‚ the first chief appointed from outside the immediate Tata family in its 144-year history. While Ratan Tata has been credited with transforming the Tata group into a streamlined conglomerate of more than 100 companies and earning a global reputation for his consolidation and expansion strategies‚ I am looking at his leadership traits and how those traits influenced the group and made him the
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TATA TEA (GB) LIMITED The proposed acquisition: As part of Tata Tea’s strategic intent to rely less heavily on black tea revenues and position itself to benefit from the growing convergence between the tea beverages business and other beverage segments‚ Tata Tea and the Tata Group have recently acquired a 30% equity stake (the “Acquisition”) in Energy Brands Inc. (“Energy Brands”) for an overall consideration of USD677m. Energy Brands is a “new age”beverage company that was formed in 1996 and
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As said by Jamsetji N. Tata‚ Founder‚ Tata Group. In a free enterprise‚ the community is not just another stakeholder in business but is in fact the very purpose of its existence." * Over the recent years too as earlier‚ the Tata philosophy to ’Give back what you get’ has been followed by all their enterprises across India. Be it relief measures‚ rural development‚ health care‚ education and art and culture‚ they have been very forthcoming. As result every year‚ the Tata Group’s contribution
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