Raja Kurapati Marketing 508 - 08/04/05 Xerox Case Study Analysis Xerox’s "Book In Time" is a revolutionary product‚ presenting some new opportunities for the company. It is simply a matter of costs. The Book-in-Time equipment allows for a publishing company to produce a 300-page book for $6.90‚ something which could have been previously reached only for lots larger than 1‚000 copies. A significant decrease in publishing costs‚ given the fact that these cover up to 20 % (including the paper
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HealthSouth Corporation Case Study By Robert H. Barr‚ Jr. - © 2012 In 2002‚ HealthSouth Corporation was one of North America’s largest outpatient surgery‚ rehabilitation and diagnostic imaging companies. HealthSouth had over 1800 facilities in all 50 states plus the United Kingdom‚ Australia‚ Puerto Rico‚ Canada and Saudi Arabia. In 2002 HealthSouth had over 50‚000 people on staff in sales revenues in excess of $4 billion per year. HealthSouth worked with more than 85‚000 referring physicians
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marketing manager is to formulate a marketing strategy that combines the aspects of all four Ps to obtain the best results for the firm. The remainder of this paper will describes each of the four Ps providing real-world examples based on the Xerox Corporation. Xerox is best known as the
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Dear Fred‚ One and one-half (1 ½) years after joining Xerox‚ you achieved your primary short-term goal of becoming senior staff within five (5) years. Confronted with the current organizational restructuring in this your 6th year‚ you must intelligently navigate the political landscape to maintain the considerable power and influence you have acquired in order to achieve your ultimate goal of becoming a corporate officer and board member. The crossroads of the situation presented to you by Fred
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line. What is it significance to Xerox‚ or to any organization? When facing business threats from competition‚ Xerox ‘s president David Kearns becomes convinced that Xerox needed a long-range‚ comprehensive quality strategy as well as a change in its traditional management culture. As a result ‚ Xerox implement the quality management practices and was approached by several Xerox employees about instituting total quality management. Kearns determined that Xerox would initiate a totally quality
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Case Analysis for Xerox Ajoy Singh Discussed Question 2. What is your opinion of the original vision of Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV)? What would you have done differently? Xerox’s interest in XTV came with the realization that the Xerox PARC’s technology was leaking out of the company. Industry rumor suggests that the Macintosh‚ Ethernet‚ laser printers‚ and mouse pointers were all invented by Xerox PARC and leaked out to various start-ups. The company
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CASE STUDY Xerox Corporation Question 1 Outline the management control system at Xerox. What are the key elements that make the system work? During 1970s‚ the management system of the company was rigid and accuracy was emphasized‚ which compromised the management control quality and also lead to unnecessary bureaucracies. In addition‚ customers’ satisfactions were also neglected due to the bureaucracy occurred. Then‚ the company’s targets were set unrealistically by the numbers people i.e.
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achieved swift advancement in a relatively short amount of time at Xerox‚ he is now faced with role options that appear‚ prima facie‚ to be lateral in nature. Clendenin’s boss‚ Fred Hewitt has made two clear offers to Clendenin: remain as head of Xerox’s Multinational Development Center (MDC) with a two-year commitment‚ or transition to a staff support position on Hewitt’s staff. While Clendenin’s success and ascension at Xerox is attributed to his role at the MDC‚ an additional two-year commitment
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1. In what ways can (a) flattening the hierarchy and (b) centralizing/decentralizing authority help an organization like Xerox to improve its performance? Flattening the hierarchy can help employees working closely‚ like those in R&D or strategic planning‚ work smoothly without having to wait for approvals or clearances. This may enable them to come up with innovative product line-ups quicker. It also helps cut down on bureaucratic costs. Centralizing an organization is useful when a large
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The Xerox Corporation Fraud case (1997 – 2000) Xerox Corporation is a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers‚ multifunction systems‚ photo copiers‚ digital production printing presses‚ and related consulting services and supplies. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk‚ Connecticut‚ though its largest population of employees is based in and around Rochester‚ New York‚ the area in which the company was founded. The history of
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