CASE 4: WindVest Motorcycle Products Down the Windy Road May 22‚ 2011 Case summary: WindVest is a small family business specialized in designing and manufacturing windshields for motorcycles. The company has experienced an annual growth of 10% and 1.5 million Dollars of sales. In order to overcome the local competition WindVest would like to improve the company’s efficiency trough the restructuring of their supply chain and finding suppliers that are located around their headquarter
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better negotiated agreements with suppliers Highly experienced and capability employees‚ around 113‚000 worldwide Market leader in DRAM ‘92 - ’02 PROBLEM ROOTS Strategy to compete with Chinese competitor ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS Cooperative strategy Collaboration with Chinese manufacturer Competitive strategy Product differentiation
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small company To a group of 6 companies in Sweden‚ Latvia and Brazil. More than 500 employees Turnover: more than SEK 1 billion on a yearly basis Growth rate: more than 35% per year Through acquisiton and organic growth 3 different business units: Mining Automotive Electromechanical Updates and recent news LEAX goes international with fairs More effective processes at LEAX to get through the past financial crises. The inauguration on LEAX BRAZIL in March of 2012
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In “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” its main character‚ Pirsig’s mind is being pulled in two separate directions. What peculiar brand of magic is inherent‚ combination and confliction of romanticisms and classicalism is hard to say. These two conflicting views are introduced as a motif. This motif is used to display the continuous conflict of the romantic and classical influence on Pirsig. Many times throughout the book Pirsig travels to his romantic side. Although this isn’t his normal
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BTEC National Subsidiary Certificate/Extended Diploma in Business UNIT 1: The Business Environment Assignment Date issued: week beginning 16th September 2013 Date for final submission: end of week beginning 20th January 2014 Introduction You will already be familiar with organisations through having dealt with them as customers or employees. One of the aims of this unit is to help you to build on these experiences and learn to ‘walk in the shoes’ of owners
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their needs. The normal sessions are held Monday through Thursday. Patrick Reid has been playing baseball since age four and is a former College and Professional Baseball player. Reid has coaching experience on both the high school and college level from Florida‚ to Brazil‚ to Arizona‚ to Ohio‚ to Texas. He was the pitching coach for the University of Texas at Brownsville from 1998 - 1999 and a NCAA Division I pitching coach at New Mexico State University from 1999 to 2001 (Patrick Reid). During
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of people all over the United States choose motorcycles over automobiles for the thrill‚ speed‚ and high performance capabilities. On the other hand‚ motorcycles are not at all the safest way of transportation. Motorcycles do not provide the passenger with the outer protection that cars provide‚ therefore‚ when one crashes‚ the results are usually much more serious. Injuries to the head are responsible for 76% of fatalities when dealing with motorcycle crashes many of which could have been prevented
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Cars versus motorcycles In the united states many people buy cars and motorcycles. Some people prefer driving cars rather than motorcycles. Both are very popular types of transportation these days. Cars and motorcycles have many differences in their cost‚ convenience ‚safety‚ comfort and maintenance. The first difference between cars and motorcycles are the cost. For example‚ people need to pay a lot of money if they want to buy or lease a car. However‚ motorcycles are cheaper
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over the world are millions of motorcycles. With different shapes‚ colors‚ and dimensions. This is a motor vehicle similar to a bicycle but usually larger and heavier‚ chiefly for one rider but some times having two saddles or an attached side car for passenger. Also a motorcycle is fun and very useful but also dangerous. Motorcycles have many advantages and disadvantages. First‚ one of the advantages of this kind of vehicle is the gas miles per gallon. Motorcycles have smaller engines so they consume
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