...The cyclone furniture case study Questions A) Describe the operating structure of cyclone furniture. Draw a structure diagram and discuss the improvements that can be made. Answer - operating structure of cyclone furniture has three broad categories: 1. Domestic furniture 2. Export furniture 3. Office furniture Each section has its own dedicated setup. Semi-finished furniture from these dedicated setups moves to single furnishing unit where activities like staining and polishing are performed by specialists. However, workers in three manufacturing units are interchangeable. STRUCTURE DIAGRAM OF CYCLONE FURNITURE /-- Domestic Furniture O \ V -- Export Furniture O --- Finishing O Upholstery O V C \-- Office Furniture O / V= stock; o= operation; /= direct to next operation/customer IMPROVEMENTS Instead of three separate manufacturing unit it is more efficient to have single manufacturing unit for all three sections. This will result in economy of scales both in term of machinery and manpower. When all operations will be performed under one space than spare leased plant and machinery can be given back to lessor and cost can be saved to some extent. b) What do think is the real cause for the cash flow problem at cyclone? what actions can be taken improve the situation? Comment on rangi management of factory. Answer- main reason for temporary cash flow problem is high level of stock of raw material and finished good then required...
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...QUESTION 1 – The Cyclone Furniture Company Case Answers:- a. There is an emphasis on Customer Service at Cyclone rather than on the Resource Utilization, which can be seen by excess of stock of both, raw material and finished goods. Objective:- The main objective of Cyclone is Customer Service. Key success factors:- • High customer service. • Timely delivery of orders. • Location of their showroom. • Distance between factory and showroom (“90 minute drive from showroom”). • High quality of their finished goods (“no doubt that quality if first-rate”). • Satisfied employee (“You also note how cheerful the workers are and that there is an overall sense of people taking pride in their work”). • Quality of workers (“workers for the three manufacturing sections are interchangeable”). • The presentation of the store. b. Structure diagram Domestic Furniture O V Export Furniture O Furnishing O Upholstery O V C Office Furniture O V= Stock O= Operation C= Customer The operating structure of Cyclone Furniture is divided into three manufacturing sections, viz. Domestic furniture, Export furniture and Office furniture. The raw material from stock is sent to these units for manufacturing from where each unfinished product is moved to the Finishing level, and where appropriate to an Upholstery department and are finally stocked before being dispatched to Australia and the showroom in New Zealand. Suggestions on improvement As it is...
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...most inexact functions in management. An individual has to understand and evaluate the external environment where there is considerable uncertainty including the market, clients, and changing technology. Poor forecasting of client needs by the marketing department often is the reason for slack production planning and as a result contributes to friction between marketing and production personnel. \ A medium – range forecast is one that covers about three months up to one year. In this case it would include forecasting items such as: Sales plans, production plans and operating cash budgets. Forecasting technique used in this case study is time series. A time series is historic or past date that have been collected over a regular period of time, representing a certain activity. The time series in this case study illustrates the movement of variables such as cash flow. Cyclone Furniture Company was constantly forecasting optimistically setting impossible budget which made it difficult for the company to make sales target. Although the factory is clean and tidy, workers seem cheerful and take pride in their work; there is an issue of over...
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...to fame is the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner. After numerous attempts and countless mistakes at perfecting one of the best selling vacuum cleaners sold today. Dyson’s invention helped revolutionize the vacuum cleaners along with other appliances in the world (famous-entrepreneurs 2013). Learning from Failure Dyson was born on May 2, 1947 in Cromer, England into a family of educators and clergymen. Along with his passion of engineering, he is a long distance runner. Dyson stated that he learned the quality of determination from it. He attended the Byam Shaw School of Art for a year after which he did courses in interior and furniture design from the Royal College of Art from 1966 to 1970. While he was there he got his first idea of using cyclonic separation in a vacuum cleaner so that it would not lose its suction quality as it picked up dirt. Dyson was very disappointed with his Hoover Junior that continuously got clogged up reducing its suction after every use. In 1979, after Dyson purchased his first top of the line vacuum cleaner, he discovered it constantly clogged and lost suction, these inefficiencies caused his mind to work on ways to fix this issue. It was not until after Dyson made a visit to a sawmill and he noticed how a large air cyclone that was used to purposely channel the sawdust out of the air. Thinking like an engineer, Dyson goes home and dismantles his high-end vacuum cleaner and created the same concept as the cyclone used to draw the sawmill...
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...School Lausanne 2011 Dyson Vacuum Cleaner Case study Sargis Sargsyan BSL Table of Contents History……………………………………………………………………………………………………2 Dyson company and world market………………………………………………………3,4 Competitors………………………………………………………………………………………5,6,7 Question1…………………………………………………………………………………………….7,8 Question 2……………………………………………………………………………………………8,9 Question 3………………………………………………………………………………………………9 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………………10 Dyson Vacuum Cleaner History Dyson Company is one of the leading companies in vacuum clear industry. The company was founded by James Dyson, who is a furniture and interior designer and his product was launched in 1966, when he was student. In 1985 James Dyson had contracted with a small company in Japan. Than in 1993 Dyson opened a research center and factory in Malmesbury by using the money from the Japanese company and developed dual cyclone vacuum cleaner, which became the fastest selling vacuum cleaner in UK. Fourteen years later Dyson could present its first product in the shop and it also presented in the Science Museum. Dyson started to develop Root 8 Cyclone, which removes more dust by using more cyclones. In 2000 he launched new innovative washing machine and in 2008 the company’s revenue reached around 700 million pound, and much of this came from vacuum cleaners sales, about two third, in outside of local market mainly from US, Australia and Japan. So now Dyson Company is one of the successful vacuum cleaner producers...
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...M17_HOLL6227_05_SE_C17.qxd 5/20/10 4:06 PM Page 641 CASE STUDY IV.3 Dyson Vacuum Cleaner: shifting from domestic to international marketing with the famous bagless vacuum cleaner The Dyson history It is impossible to separate the very British Dyson vacuum cleaner from its very British inventor. Together they are synonymous with innovation and legal battles against established rivals. James Dyson was born in Norfolk in 1947. He studied furniture design and interior design at the Royal College of Art from 1966 to 1970 and his first product, the Sea Truck, was launched while he was still Courtesy of Dyson. studying. Dyson’s foray into developing vacuum cleaner technology happened by chance. In 1978, while renovating his 300-year-old country house, Dyson became frustrated with the poor performance of his conventional vacuum cleaner. Whenever he went to use it, there was poor suction. One day he thought he would find out what was wrong with the design. He noted that the appliance worked by drawing air through the bag to create suction, but when even a fine layer of dust got inside, it clogged its pores, stopping the airflow and suction. In his usual style of seeking solutions from unexpected sources, Dyson noticed how a nearby sawmill used a cyclone – a 30-foot-high cone that spun dust out of the air by centrifugal force – to expel waste. He reasoned that a vacuum cleaner that could separate dust by cyclonic action and spin it out of the ...
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...IKEA Case Study 12/31/2009 GAPR09RM085 Riddhima Chopra IKEA Case Study December 31, 2009 Table of Contents About....................................................................................................................................................... 3 History ..................................................................................................................................................... 3 Corporate Structure ................................................................................................................................ 4 Vision and Mission .................................................................................................................................. 4 The IKEA Concept .................................................................................................................................... 5 IKEA Range .............................................................................................................................................. 5 IKEA Store................................................................................................................................................ 6 Design.................................................................................................................................................. 6 Location.........................................................................................................................................
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...All about 2011 Contents About us .........................................................................................1 The Coles story .......................................................................... 2 About Wesfarmers ...................................................................4 Our year ........................................................................................5 Our new format stores ...........................................................8 Our team ......................................................................................9 Responsible sourcing ............................................................10 Australia first ............................................................................ 12 Our sustainability ................................................................... 13 Our community ....................................................................... 14 Our 3 year performance summary ..................................17 Cover image: supplier to Coles for over 20 years, apple grower Harvey Giblett of Newton Brothers Orchards, located in Manjimup, Western Australia. About us Coles is a leading national food, liquor and convenience retailer in Australia. We employ more than 102,000 team members across our brands, which include Coles and Bi-Lo supermarkets, Coles Express, 1st Choice Liquor Superstore, Liquorland, Vintage Cellars and Spirit Hotels. Our goal What we want to achieve ...
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...TABLE OF CONTENT 1. ORGANIZATION 2. PROBLEMS 3. AIR POLUTION 4. LEGAL AND REQUIREMENT 5. SOLUTION BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF PREVENTION AND CONTROL MEASURES AT WORKPROSES INTRODUCTION OF ORGANIZATION CEMENT INDUSTRIES OF MALAYSIA BERHAD Cement Industries of Malaysia Berhad ("CIMA ") group of companies ("CIMA Group" or the Group) has been involved in the manufacturing and distribution of cement and related activities since 1975. CIMA is 100% owned by UEM Group Berhad which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional Berhad, an investment arm of the government of Malaysia. The Group effectively combines people skills and technological capabilities to become the third largest cement manufacturer in Malaysia. The Group also ventures into international market namely Singapore. The Group's total asset as at 31 December 2012 stands at approximately RM2.0 billion while the paid up capital stands are RM 142 million. The Group is divided into three main divisions comprising Cement Division, Ready-Mixed Division and Aggregates & Premix Division. In Cement Division, Cimaco Quarry Sdn Bhd provides the required limestone for Negeri Sembilan Cement Industries Sdn Bhd (NSCI). NSCI leads The Cement Division with cement plants in Bukit Ketri, Perlis and Bahau Negeri Sembilan. The two plants combined, make up a total clinker production of 2.95 million tonnes per annum and a total production cement capacity of 5.6 million tonnes per annum, comprising Ordinary Portland Cement...
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...Strategic Management Section A: Objective Type (30 marks) •This section consists of multiple choice questions & Short notes type questions. •Answer all the questions. •Part one questions carry 1 mark each & Part two questions carry 5 marks each. Part One: Multiple choices: 1. A plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal is: b. Strategy 2. It is important to develop mission statement for: a. Allocating organizational resources 3. The five forces model was developed by: c. Michael E. Porter 4. How many elements are involve in developing in an organizational strategy: a. Six 5. The three important steps in SWOT analysis are: b. Opportunities, Threats, Strengths 6. GE matrix consists of how many cells? a. Nine cells 7. Which of these is the type of Games: d. All of the above 8. SBU stands for c. Strategic Business Unit 9. The BCG matrix is known as: a. Growth share matrix 10. ______________ specifies sales revenues and selling distribution and marketing costs. b. Sales budget ________________________________________ Section A: Part Two: 1. What are the dimensions of Strategic management? Answer: Strategic management process involves the entire range of decisions. Typically, strategic issues have six identifiable dimensions: 1. Top management involvement: Strategic management relates to several areas of a firm’s operations. So, it requires top management’s involvement. Generally, only the...
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...HND (Business)/ Foundation Unit 36: Starting a small business Assignment Title: “Starting a business” HND (Business)/ Foundation Unit 36: Starting a small business Assignment Title: “Starting a business” Submitted by: Ma Yamin Thu (Business Foundation) Submitted by: Ma Yamin Thu (Business Foundation) Date: (26.6.2016) Date: (26.6.2016) Contents Part 1: INTRODUCTION 2 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2 Objectives 2 Part 2: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 Part 3: ASSIGNMENT 4 Task 1: Business Idea and Target Market 4 1.1 The initial business idea using relevant criteria 4 1.2 Identification of the target market 6 1.3 Demonstration the methods of the target market 9 Task 2: Required Skills 11 2.1 Skills needed to run the business 11 2.2 Legal and financial aspects that will affect the start-up of the business 13 2.3 Analyzing the areas of development skill 17 Task 3: BUSINESS PLAN 18 3.1 Proposal for starting a small business 18 3.2 The implications of legal and financial aspects 20 3.3 Business report 22 Part 4: RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION 26 4.1 Recommendation 26 4.2 Conclusion 26 Part 5: REFERENCES 27 Part 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction I am investigating to start a small business and I want it to become a viable one in the real world among the ever changing environment. Necessary, sufficient and reliable knowledge and information are needed in making a good decision. Skills and experiences are also needed in order to get the successful business. I need to have the...
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...MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGING ASSETS, STORES AND FINANCE SAFETY AND SECURITY AT SCHOOL MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES MANAGING THE SYSTEM 3 i PREFACE Rectors, as Heads of School, are expected to exemplify good leadership and management techniques, very often, in conditions of uncertainty. The social system of the school comprising staff, students as well as the Community of parents at large, looks up to the Rector for leadership and an inclusive atmosphere. While the School Development Plan is available in all institutions as an indication of the direction to follow, the Rector needs support and resources to make critical decisions on a day-to-day basis. These decisions may well relate to pedagogical matters as much as to disciplinary cases. Nevertheless, it is also vital to understand that a Head of School cannot do it alone. He/ She will have to resort to some delegation of responsibility and especially know when and how to do it This need for support to the on-site Rectors prompted me to see to it that my Ministry comes up with a reference document covering broad areas of responsibility of Heads of State Secondary Schools while keeping a balance between activities intended to maintain the stability of the school as a viable essential educational organisation and the area in which Rectors may encourage meaningful...
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...The 21st Century Jet The Boeing 777 Multimedia Case Study Shad H Shokralla Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley December 18, 1995 Research Advisor: Professor Alice M. Agogino Berkeley Expert Systems Technology Laboratory On-line Version URL: main.html Abstract Multimedia case studies have been shown to be an effective way of documenting and teaching best design practices. This is a case study of the changes that the Boeing Commercial Aircraft Company made in the way they design and build airplanes. The 777 is the first jet that Boeing has created using this methodology. The changes were very dramatic and encompassed many areas, including technical, organizational and administrative changes. Boeing is touting the 777 as more than just a product, but as a new process. Although the technical innovations were numerous, what made the 777 project unique were the other changes Boeing instituted for this design/build effort. It was the first 100% digitally designed and pre-assembled airplane made by Boeing. Concurrent engineering, the concept of “Working Together”, was an integral part of the new philosophy and nearly 240 Design/Build teams were used through-out the process. The teams included design, manufacturing, customer and supplier personnel from the start. Designing and building a new...
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...EEF UNIT Equity and Entrepreneurship Fund (EEF) was created by allocating a sum of Taka 100.00 Crore (Taka One hundred crore) in the Budget of the Government of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh for the financial year 2000-2001 with a view to encourage the investors to invest in the risky but otherwise promising two sectors, viz, software industry and food processing and agro-based industry. Bangladesh Bank is authorized by the Government to manage the EEF. A sum of Tk.200.00 (Taka two hundred crore) has been earmarked in the budget of the GOB for financial year 2003-2004. |01. |Objectives of EEF. | |02. |Eligibility for EEF assistance | |03. |How much EEF assistance can you get | |04. |What to do by the entrepreneurs | |05. |Steps to be taken by the Bank/FI | |06. |Investment Agreement | |07. |Application form for EEF ...
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...having many impediments as well as problems in his business Mr. Azad overcome it with courage and by applying his merit and perseverance he established a business hub namely ‘Ha-Meem Group of Companies’ and since inception he has been carrying out his responsibilities as its Managing Director. Meanwhile Ha-Meem Group of Companies has earned name and fame both at home and abroad. The uninterrupted continuation of this group is moving forward to the industrialization of the country and at the same time it has been contributing enormously in the economic growth of the country also. Mr. A.K Azad does not think the initiative of commerce and industry only based on profit; he considers it the best way for resolving the unemployment problems also. It seems to him if the private entrepreneurs are not coming forward to industrializations, the country might lag behind and the rate of unemployment people could have been increased many folds. Recognition . Mr. A.K Azad is one of those who have been playing a pivotal role to make an industrialized Bangladesh. A very young, energetic and sincere industrialist is the Chairman & Managing Director of Ha-Meem Group of Companies, one of the leading business conglomerates of the country. Under the dynamic leadership of Mr. A.K Azad,...
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