Written Case Analysis (15% of course grade) Case 22 – Herman Miller Inc. The Reinvention and Renewal of an Iconic Manufacturer of Office Furniture Herman Miller Inc. CEO Brian Walker has employed you as a strategic consultant to evaluate the company’s approaches to executing its strategy and to make strategy-supportive recommendations for improvement. Specifically‚ he has asked you to advise him on what policies and operating practices have worked particularly well and what changes might
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TJX is the largest international apparel and home fashions off-price department store chain in the United States with 26 million in revenues in 2012. It was founded in 1956 as Zayre and is headquartered in Framingham‚ Massachusetts. Globally it is one of the top 50 retailers in the world‚ specializing in cheap apparel and footwear. With over 3‚000 stores today‚ we see the potential to expand our store base by over 50%‚ up to almost 4‚800 stores‚ with our current chains in our current markets alone
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Harley Davidson Motor Company: Enterprise Software Selection (Case analysis) Case description “This case focuses on a change program and selection of an enterprise software vendor. The decision of which partner to choose to help the company change the way it purchased raised fundamental tensions within the company”. Question 1 Consider Exhibit 10 on page 22 of the case; does it include the factors you consider most important in the selection process? Which factors would you be inclined to weight
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Strategic Management (Spring 2013) Case Analyses—Schedule‚ Format‚ and Required Items Per the syllabus‚ p. 4-5‚ you must submit three (3) written Case Analyses. Each of these case analyses (papers) is worth a maximum of 100 points. Below the cases are grouped into UNIT 1‚ UNIT 2‚ and UNIT 3 case options. You must complete one (1) case paper from EACH of these Units (3 case papers total). No late cases will be accepted for a grade. NOTE: The first case appearing on the Course Schedule (Feb
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ARCTIC MINING CONSULTANTS Case Synopsis Arctic Mining Consultants is a mining company that deals with mineral exploration. In this case study‚ the project given is staking 15 claims in Eagle Lake‚ Alaska. The project Manager was Tom Parker‚ who has a wide experience and specialized knowledge in all nontechnical aspects of mineral exploration. He is a geological field technician and field coordinator for Arctic Mining Consultants. He assigned his previous field assistants John Talbot‚ Greg Boyce
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Johann Vermeer Organizational Behavior – Case Analysis Report QUESTIONS : 1. Use the data in the case to formulate hypotheses about Johann’s values‚ type A beliefs and self ideal. Focus specially on those psychological traits that may strongly influence his career decision at this time. Values are the behaviors and attitudes that individuals consider good. There are two types of values: espoused values and values in-use. Espoused values are those that individuals proclaim and
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T.J.X. Companies‚ Inc. Final Case Study Report Nichols College T.J.X. Companies‚ Inc. is the leading off-price apparel and home fashions retailer in the United States and worldwide‚ ranking number 115 in the most recent Fortune 500 listings. They have the broadest demographic reaches in retail‚ all of which have enabled them to achieve successful‚ and profitable growth year after year‚ through many types of economic and retail cycles. With over
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Hampton‚ VA School of Business Case Analysis #1 10/22/08 By Introduction Analysis Success of IT systems The information system solution in the case can be itemized as a successful business venture through projected promising statistics; 200‚000 sensors in use now have been estimated to reach the 100 million mark of wireless sensors installed by 2008. Not just the sensors themselves have been estimated to increase‚ but the market for them will increase from $100 million in 2005 to over $1
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eStore at Shell Case Analysis – Student sample Case Synopsis In 2002 Shell Canada‚ a large Oil and Gas company‚ launched the eStore software application to service their price-sensitive Agricultural market segment by offering a lower cost service. Calvin Wright (eProduct manager) helped implement the eStore application‚ which was geared to service this Agricultural Segment market. The Agricultural Segment was considered by Shell to be high costs since local sales representatives were used in
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TJX corporate systems had poor security controls. The computer kiosks that were located in some of their stores were supposed to be secure. They also had some firewall protection. TJX wireless network was protected by WEP encryption system. The computer kiosks were poorly secured; the kiosks were accessible from the back which made them vulnerable to tampering. The computer firewalls set up did not block malicious traffic coming from the kiosks. The wireless network used an old encryption
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